Environment
New study in Science: Why Humans in Africa Fled to the Mountains During the Last Ice Age
People in Ethiopia did not live in low valleys during the last ice age. Instead, they lived high up in the inhospitable Bale Mountains. There they had enough water, built tools out of obsidian and relied mainly on giant rodents for nourishment.
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