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Dikika Baby
NOVEMBER 2006
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Ethiopia's Badlands

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Rough Country
Photograph by Kenneth Garrett, ©2006 ARCCH

Ethiopia's badlands dwarf the dig team, returning from the Dikika site. Tectonic shifts and erosion have bared sediments laid down millions of years ago, when Australopithecus afarensis and other human ancestors inhabited the once lush terrain. Lucy's remains were found just six miles (10 kilometers) away.

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