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ID: 6002410
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6002410
Record Type:
administrative
Hadar (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 11 10 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 11.1660
decimal degrees
Long: 040 38 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 40.6330
decimal degrees
Note:
Site near the Awash River, ca. 300 km from Addis Ababa; famed for fossils of hominid Australophithecus afarensis, particularly the skeleton known as "Lucy," a line believed to be older than Australopithecus africanus.
Names:
Hadar
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Ethiopia
(nation) (
P
)
............
Afar Regional State
(state) (
P
)
................
Hadar
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
since 1973
prehistoric site (
C
)
............
site of fossils dating from 2.9 million years ago
Sources and Contributors:
Hadar..........
[
VP Preferred
]
..............
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 605
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
V, 605
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Shaw and Jameson, Dictionary of Archaeology (2002)
263
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