History of Ethiopia, there was no evidence of the existence of an ancient person until it was discovered in Ethiopia in 1963 AD, and after the passage of years, discoveries began in neighboring countries such as Kenya and Tanzania. The discoverer was Gerrard Dekker, the Dutch scientist, who discovered Acheulean stone tools dating back millions of years in Kella. Since then, many important discoveries have propelled Ethiopia to the fore in paleobiology. The discovery of oldest humanoid creature ever discovered in Ethiopia, Ardipithecus ramidus (Ardi), which is 4.2 million years old, is credited to Tim D. White in 1994 AD. The most famous humanoid creature is Lucy, found in Wadi Awash in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 1974 AD by Donald Johanson, and was one of the most complete and best-preserved adults Australopithecus fossil specimens ever uncovered. Lucy’s taxonomic name, Australopithecus afarensis, “southern Afar monkey”, refers to the Ethiopian region in which it was discovered. It is estimated that Lucy lived 3.2 million years ago. There have been many other notable fossil findings in Ethiopia. Stone tools were discovered near Juna in 1992 AD, dating back to 2.52 million years, and these are the oldest tools ever discovered in the world. In 2010 AD, fossilized bones of animals dating back 3.4 million years were found with signs of stone tools in the lower Awash Valley, and that discovery was made by an international team led by Shannon McPherron, which is the oldest evidence of the use of stone tools and was never found in anywhere in the world.
East Africa, and more specifically the general region of Ethiopia, is largely the site of the appearance of the first Neanderthals in the Mesolithic period. In 2004 AD, fossils were found next to the Omo River in Quebec by Richard Leakey in 1967 AD, dating back to 195 thousand years, the oldest history of modern humans anywhere in the world. Homo sapiens, who were found in the middle of Wadi Awash in Ethiopia, lived in 1997 AD, approximately 160,000 years ago.
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