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Tombos Site

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Michele Buzon, a professor of anthropology, (top) and Sarah Schrader, an assistant professor of human osteoarchaeology at Leiden University in The Netherlands, excavate at the Tombos site along the Nile River Valley in modern day Sudan in 2010. Both archaeologists were part of the team that unearthed an ancient horse in 2011 at the site. Schrader was a Purdue graduate student at the time.

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