Discovery of 3.4-million-year-old partial foot in Ethiopia

An international team of Ethiopian and American scientists conducting paleontological field research in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia has announced the discovery of a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot. The new specimen did not belong to a member of "Lucy's" species, Australopithecus afarensis, the famous and most-researched early human ancestor. The partial foot was found in an area locally known as Burtele, located in the Mille District of Zone 1 of the Afar Regional State. The discovery and results from the initial analysis of this specimen will be published in the March 29, 2012 issue of the international scientific journal Nature.

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[logsdonj]

Fantastic video.

[behailu man]

Lucy, Ardi, Kadaba, Idaltu, Kadanuuumu, Bodo etc of early human fossils all found in Ethiopia. This partial foot is among the most outstanding hominid discoveries which again attest the land of Ethiopia as the cradle of human kind. Imagine the current theory is that all people of the world originated from the land of Ethiopia and populated the other part of the worlds. Therefore, Ethiopia is the birth place of Human Being! Ethiopia is the mother of all!