Lower Valley of the Awash World Heritage Site

Official name

Lower Valley of the Awash | UNESCO

Country

Ethiopia | Map

Continent

Africa

Location

Afar region
11.1000° Lat, 40.5793° Lon | Map

Code

10

Time Zone

Africa/Addis_Ababa (EAT, +0300)

Current Time

Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1980. The Awash valley contains one of the most important groupings of palaeontological sites on the African continent. The remains found at the site, the oldest of which date back at least 4 million years, provide evidence of human evolution which has modified our conception of the history of humankind. The most spectacular discovery came in 1974, when 52 fragments of a skeleton enabled the famous Lucy to be reconstructed.