...Figure 4. Complete skull of Australopithecus anamensis dated at 3.8 Ma from Woranso-Mille, Ethiopia, discovered by Yohannes Haile-Selassie and colleagues in 2016. P hoto : Y ohannes H aile -S elassie . ...

... the development of the precise and accurate age control of hominid and artifact-bearing strata in the East African Rift. REFERENCES Alene M and 6 coauthors ( 2017 ) Geochemistry of Woranso–Mille Pliocene basalts from west-central Afar, Ethiopia: implications for mantle source characteristics...

...., and Lovejoy, C.O., 2010 , An early Australopithecus afarensis postcranium from Woranso-mille, Ethiopia : National Academy of Sciences [USA], Proceedings , v . 107 , p . 12121 – 12126 . Harkin...

... play specific roles in influencing the technological properties and performance of ceramics products. Evaluating the various properties can help to determine the best way to utilize clay materials, such as the locally available Bombawuha (BC) and Denkaka (DC) clays mined from Ethiopia’s Bombawuha...

...), Koka (Eritrea), and Lega Dembi and Sakaro (Ethiopia), and mining is due to start at Gupo (Eritrea) and Tulu Kapi (Ethiopia) in the near future. More than twenty companies are actively exploring for gold in the region and potentially important deposits are known in Egypt (Hamama-VMS), in northern Sudan...

... Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia), which seem to fit into the pattern of print variability observed at Laetoli in that they possess distinct anatomical and inferred functional adaptations lacking in the Australopithecus afarensis hypodigm. It has been proposed that Australopithecus afarensis was sexually...

... comprises two onshore branches ( Fig. 1 ): the c. 2300 km long and volcanically-active Eastern Branch, that extends from the southern margin of the Afar Depression through Ethiopia, Kenya and northern Tanzania; and the c. 3300 km long, volcanically less active, Western Branch, that stretches from Uganda...

... in this paper. The Triassic of Texas is composed of four rock units (Gawloski, 1983; Text-Figure 1 ). These are the Eagle Mills Formation (south-central and northeast Texas), Sycamore Formation (central Texas), Dockum Group (west Texas) and Bissett Formation (southwest Texas). The sediments are dominated...

... deposit in laterite at Yubdo, Ethiopia were examined by Augustithis ( 1965 ) and Ottemann and Augustithis ( 1967 ) who suggested that they may be secondary in origin. Other authors (Cabri and Harris, 1975 ; Cabri et al. , 1981 ) took the opposing view, insisting that they are of magmatic origin...

..., Suidae, Mammalia) from the Woranso-Mille (Ethiopia) and reappraisal of its generic status . Journal of Mammalian Evolution 26 : 179 – 199 . Rensberger , J. M . 1973 . An occlusion model for mastication and dental wear in herbivorous mammals . Journal of Paleontology 47 : 515 – 527...

...Ninon Blond; Nicolas Jacob-Rousseau; Charlène Bouchaud; Yann Callot Abstract In Northern Tigray (Ethiopia), the combined presence in the valley bottoms of sedimentary fills several meters thick and of archaeological remains of human settlements (homes, camps) raises the question of the socio...

..., stratigraphy and geographic coordinates of the studied samples are given in Table  1 . After rock crushing, milling and dry sieving to obtain the 63−125 μm fractions, the heavy mineral fractions were separated using sodium polytungstate with a density of 2.85 g mL −1 (see Bassis et al. 2016 b for details...

.... In addition, colluvial sediments and associated palaeosols are also known from across sub-Saharan Africa in Ethiopia ( Berakhi et al., 1998 ; Coltorti et al., 2009 , 2019 ; Pietsch and Machado, 2016), Tanzania ( Payton et al., 1992 ; Eriksson et al., 1999 , 2000 ), Kenya ( Mahaney, 1992 ) and Zambia...

... north to south, the Korath Range in southern Ethiopia ( Brown and Carmichael 1969 ; Jicha and Brown 2014 ), North Island ( Brown and Carmichael 1971 ; Karson and Curtis 1994 ; Furman et al. 2006 b ), Central Island (including Bird's Nest) ( Dunkelman et al. 1988 ; Karson and Curtis 1994...

... if the diagrams presented in this paper are to be used. Sample preparation is particularly important, as at low Ta concentrations (<1 ppm), samples crushed in a tungsten carbide mill are liable to give erroneous results because of significant but variable Ta contamination. The nonconservative behavior...

... province ( Hallis et al. , 2015 ). But mantle carbon has a similar isotopic signature (δ 13 C around - 5 ‰, where the standard is carbonate C; Javoy et al. , 1986 ) to that of surface carbon (a mixture of carbonates and organic C). Nitrogen trapped in diamonds was found to be depleted by a few per mille...

... in the Eocene with basaltic volcanism in the broadly rifted zone in the Turkana area of northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia at ca. 45 Ma ( Corti, 2009 ; Ebinger et al., 1993 ; George and Rogers, 2002 ) ( Fig. 1A ). Large-scale flood basalts were emplaced during the Oligocene as a result of the impingement...

.../Ni ratios in the different pyrite generations. Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry analysis pinpoints the covariance of gold and arsenic contents in pyrite, but free milling gold inclusions in microfractures consistently have a mercury-bearing electrum composition, depicting...