Bodo , site of paleoanthropological excavations in the Awash River Valley in Ethiopia, known for the discovery in 1976 of a 600,000-year-old skull whose shape is between Homo erectus and H. sapiens ; Many authorities classify it as a separate species H. heidelbergensis . Bodo also has plenty of animal fossils and Stone Age Tools der Oldowan and Acheulean industry.
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