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Ethiopia

Interesting how they display women's clothes on the mannequins.

Bringing grass down to the city to sell by donkey

Looking across the city of Addis Ababa from the local hills.

She is carrying fire wood to sell in the city

Returning to Addis Ababa from the hills surrounding the city.

Entrance to Addis Ababa University

We had lunch here on our last day in Addis Ababa.

The restaurant was an Oasis in the middle of all the local congestion.

Map of Ethiopia

Meet Lucy the most precious archaeological finds such as the fossilized remains of early hominids, the most famous of which is "Lucy," the partial skeleton of a specimen of Australopithecus afarensis. It is estimated to be 3.3 million years old, This Afarensis specimen is considered to be the earliest child.

Lucy is the most complete skeleton of an early human ancestor ever discovered.

Students from Addis Ababa University looking at Lucy in the National Museum of Ethiopia. Lucy was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on November 24, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia. They had taken a Land Rover out that day to map in another locality. After a long, hot morning of mapping and surveying for fossils, they decided to head back to the vehicle. Johanson suggested taking an alternate route back to the Land Rover, through a nearby gully. Within moments, he spotted a right proximal ulna (forearm bone) and quickly identified it as a hominid. Shortly thereafter, he saw an occipital (skull) bone, then a femur, some ribs, a pelvis, and the lower jaw. Two weeks later, after many hours of excavation, screening, and sorting, several hundred fragments of bone had been recovered, representing 40 percent of a single hominid skeleton

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