The earliest Acheulean from Konso-Gardula
- 31 December 1992
- journal article
- letter
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 360 (6406) , 732-735
- https://doi.org/10.1038/360732a0
Abstract
KONSO-GARDULA is a palaeoanthropological area discovered by the 1991 Palaeoanthropological Inventory of Ethiopia1–5 in the southern Main Ethiopian Rift. The Konso-Gardula sediments span the period about 1.3–1.9 million years ago. They contain rich Acheulean archaeological occurrences. Vertebrate fossils include early Homo.Keywords
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