Abstract
The first paleontological surveys of the Mullu basin in the Somali Region (Figure 20.1A,B) were conducted by Yohannes Haile-Selassie and colleagues in 1997. They collected several isolated hominin teeth, preliminarily attributed to Australopithecus anamensis, and a few other large mammal remains in the Galili area in the southern Afar depression of Ethiopia (Haile-Selassie and Asfaw, 2000). Subsequently, between 2000 and 2009, the International Paleoanthropological Research Team consisting of Ethiopian, Austrian, American, Italian, and German anthropologists, paleontologists, and geologists recovered and catalogued more than 2000 vertebrate fossils from Galili sites (Figure 20.1C) during annual field seasons. Besides a number of fish, reptile, bird, and small mammal remains, a great variety of large mammal species, including primates, carnivores, proboscideans, perissodactyls, and artiodactyls have been found (Kullmer et al.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | African Paleoecology and Human Evolution |
Editors | Sally C. Reynolds, René Bobe |
Place of Publication | Cambridge |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Chapter | 20 |
Pages | 242-255 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781139696470 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106056 Biological anthropology
- 105118 Palaeontology