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Results of a large scale investigation of the lower Omo valley in south-western Ethiopia suggest a time-stratigraphic range for the Omo beds extending from the end-Pliocene through the earliest Pleistocene.

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HOWELL, C. Omo Research Expedition. Nature 219, 567–572 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/219567a0

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