Cradle of Mankind

Lucy dated to just less than 3.18 million
years old, was found by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray on the 30th of November, 1974, at the site of Hadar in Ethiopia.

• Institute of Human Origins: Dinknesh and other fossil discoveries in Ethiopia
  

• Information on Ethiopia from the comprehensive Archeology  site
  

• Rutgers: Report on the oldest stone tools