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DURING the third International Afar Research Expedition, which led to the exciting find of the australopithecine skeleton known as “Lucy”1, parallel investigations revealed the existence of two Early Stone Age (ESA) industries in the Hadar area. One comprises an Acheulian workshop (the Denen Dora Koma Acheulian), and the other, stratigraphically younger, constitutes a degenerate biface-flake industry.
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CORVINUS, G. Prehistoric exploration at Hadar, Ethiopia. Nature 261, 571–572 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261571a0
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