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Historical Bibliography Updated: August 27, 2022

Plio-Pleistocene hominid discoveries in Hadar, Ethiopia.

Publication Details

Nature, 260, 293-97. 1976 CE.

Report on the Afar fossils (formally classified and named Australopithiecus afaranesis in 1998) representing a minimum of 35 and a maximum of 65 individuals, all about 3,000,000 years old. The most famous of these, AL 288-1, is called “Lucy”. Another large collection of bones (AL 333) is sometimes called the "First Family”.

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