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🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder

Herto (Middle Awash – Herto Bouri)

Middle Pleistocene (260–154 ka; idaltu bearing 160 ka) · Homo sapiens idaltu (early sapiens subspecies)

Formation yielding 160 ka Homo sapiens idaltu crania BOU-VP-16 with deliberate defleshing cutmarks and Acheulean→MSA transition.