... the other, the southern route, brought humans through what is now Ethiopia and Arabia.
Lucy, also known as 'Dinkinesh' in local language Amharic to say 'you are rattling', is a collection of several pieces of bone representing about 40 per cent of the skeleton of a female Australopithecus Afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 at Hadar in the Awash valley of the Afar. In paleoanthropology usually only fossil fragments are found and only rarely are skulls or ribs uncovered intact; thus this discovery was extraordinary and provided an enormous amount of scientific evidence. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago, and is classified as a hominin.
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