Melka Kunture, as it can be seen today, is part of a gently undulating landscape of the Upper Awash Valley, in the highlands of Ethiopia, at c. 2000m asl. All over the Upper Pliocene and the ...

Archaeologists excavating at Melka Kunture uncovered almost 600 obsidian stone tools and identified the oldest known “workshop,” study says. Photo from the Italo-Spanish archaeological mission at ...

Long before the rise of the Homo sapiens civilization, our ancestors walked the valleys of East Africa over a million years ago—and some of them, it seems, were on the hunt for perfectly round tools.

At head of title: "Ministry of Foreign Affairs, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Department of Historical, Archaeological and Anthropological Science of Antiquity, Italian Institute of Prehistory and ...