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Afar, Oromiya

Omo / Awash hominid fossil beds (Ethiopia)

Fossil site Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Why this spot

Plio-Pleistocene sediments

Afar/Hadar and Omo: cradle-of-humankind fossils; strictly off-limits

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