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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Dec 28 2010 - 14:45:20 EST
http://www.shabait.com/news/local-news/4171-eritrean-national-museum-discovers-significant-animal-and-human-fossils
- Eritrean National Museum discovers significant animal and human fossils
Asmara, 28 December 2010 - The Eritrean National Museum has discovered a jaw
and teeth of a missing link of an extinct elephant family, as well as human
frontal lobe and chick bone in both the Northern Red Sea region and the
Southern region.
In a press conference he gave, the Head of the national museum, Dr. Yosef
Libsekal, explained that the discoveries were made during field studies
conducted on December 2010 through Eritrean and Italian archeologists. He
further indicated that the fossils of the extinct elephant family were
unearthed at the site of Mai-Ghebro near Mendefera town in the Southern
region, while the remains of human frontal lobe and chick bone was
discovered at the site of Mulhuli-Amo in Ma’ebele area, Northern Red Sea
region.
Noting that such discoveries are of vital significance, Dr. Yosef asserted
that the study would continue in an enhanced manner.
The director of research division at the Eritrean National Museum, Mr.
Tsegai Medhin, said on his part that the newly found fossil of a missing
elephant family is estimated to be 27 million years old and is of the first
of its kind both in terms of age and species.
Moreover, a systematic research undertaken by the Eritrean-Italian team of
archeologists in the villages of Buya (Homo site), Me’abele, Dioli, Derayto
and Dandero revealed a significant evidence regarding the geological
evolution of the Rift Valley and the ancient environment in which our
ancestors lived.
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