Dikika is a region in Afar ( Ethiopia ), located in the Avash Valley , 400 km northeast of Addis Ababa , the capital of Ethiopia.
During archaeological excavations in the Dikika area in 2000, the Ethiopian paleoanthropologist Zeresenai Alemseged a find of a fosillized skull and fragments of the postcranial skeleton of a 3-year-old female hominid of the female genus belonging to the species Australopithecus afar , about 3.3 million years old, was made. The find, remarkable for its integrity and good preservation, was called Selam . [one]
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- ↑ Alemseged, Zeresenay; et al. A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia (Eng.) // Nature. - 2006. - Vol. 443 , no. 7109 . - P. 296-301 . - DOI : 10.1038 / nature05047 . - PMID 16988704 . (inaccessible link) Abstract . Related information . Figures and tables .