Bladen Engda of the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Ethiopia Display (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Bladen Engda of the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Ethiopia Display

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Bladen Engda of the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Ethiopia displays a sharp-edged tool that has just been recovered from 2.6 million year old sediments in Ethiopia. These chipped stones would have been used to cut meat from carcasses by our earliest ancestors.

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Image courtesy of David Braun.

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