Australopithecus garhi
An Ethiopian hominin found alongside butchered bones, at the moment tools and meat converge.
- When
- Known to
- ± 100 thousand years
- Era
- Early Pleistocene, Quaternary
Australopithecus garhi, named from the Afar word for surprise, dates to about 2.5 million years ago and combines large teeth with limb proportions in which the femur is relatively long — a step toward the human pattern. Animal bones from nearby deposits of the same age carry cut marks and percussion damage from marrow extraction. Whether garhi made those marks is unproven, but the association places a hominin, stone tools and processed carcasses in one place at one time.