This is a classic article from Â鶹´«Ã½’s archive, republished as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations
FOSSILS from the Awash river valley in Ethiopia have pushed the existence of man’s line back to before 4 million years ago. The fossils were found by a team led by Dr Desmond Clark from the University of California, Berkeley. The expedition discovered the fossil scraps – part of a thigh bone and some skull fragments – at a site 70 kilometres south of the area that yielded Lucy, the remarkably complete skeleton named Australopithecus afarensis, discovered in 1974. The finds are very similar…
