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[https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/archaeologists-take-wrong-turn-find-world-s-oldest-stone-tools-update/ by Kate Wong 20/5/15 SCI AM] | [https://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observations/archaeologists-take-wrong-turn-find-world-s-oldest-stone-tools-update/ by Kate Wong 20/5/15 SCI AM] | ||
Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction. | Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years older than stone tools from Ethiopia that previously held this distinction. | ||
=====Paleoanthropological sites of the upper Awash River basin: Fanta, Gemeda and Koche, preliminary results===== | |||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221005528 by Peter Lanzarone 10/5/22 ScienceDirect] | |||
Ethiopia has well known paleontological and archaeological sites within the Rift Valley, but relatively little is known of the potential within the surrounding highlands. Here, we present three underexplored sites within and nearby Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital city: Fanta, Gemeda, and Koche. | |||
