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Early humans inhabited North Africa earlier than thought

East Africa is notably known for yielding the earliest Oldowan stone tools and hominin butchered animal bones. They were excavated at the site of Gona in the Afar (Ethiopia) dated to 2.6 million years ago (Ma). Hence, most paleoanthropologists believed that human ancestors and their... click to read more

Mohamed Sahnouni | Professor at National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain

Algeria

Ain Boucherit

Oldowan

cutmarks

early human occupation

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published on May 22, 2019

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