The Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia

THE LOWER AWASH VALLEY (Ethiopia)

You may not have heard of Ethiopia's Awash River Valley, but you should know of the most famous person who ever lived there: this is Lucy, an early hominin fossil dated to about 3.2 million years ago. (Her scientific designation is AL 288-1, but she is also called Dinkinesh, "you are marvelous" in Amharic.) The Valley hosts one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African continent.

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