Hadar, Ethiopia

Erella Hovers

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_22

Hadar, Ethiopia

Erella Hovers

Institute of Archaeology

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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The Hadar Research Project area (HRP) is a c. 100 km² area in the Afar region in northeastern Ethiopia. Best known for its Pliocene (3.45–2.9 Ma) hominin fossils and fauna, stone artifact-bearing sites have been documented in Hadar since the 1970s. A majority of artifacts were found as eroded surface finds. Few “Middle Acheulean” and Oldowan finds were reported as in situ occurrences, some of which) were later incorporated in the Gona project and explored under its auspices. Additional sites in the HRP were discovered and systematically excavated between 1994 and 2011 by members of the HRP, and have been under study since. All the currently known archaeological localities in the Hadar research area are found in sediments of the previously designated upper Kada Hadar (KH) member of the Hadar Formation, now subsumed into the pan-Afar depression Busidima Formation (BF).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa
Subtitle of host publication	Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology
Pages	373-385
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031202902
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20290-2_22
State	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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