image: Lower mandible of the giant mole-rat (Tachyoryctes macrocephalus) from the Middle Stone Age deposits of Fincha Habera rock shelter. This endemic Afro-alpine rodent represented a key food source of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Bale Mountains. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the August 9, 2019, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by G. Ossendorf at University of Cologne in Cologne, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Middle Stone Age foragers resided in high elevations of the glaciated Bale Mountains, Ethiopia." view more
Credit: Götz Ossendorf