(Historic tidbits about Ethiopia on this date on August 12) --- Today hosts International Youth Day, a day for governments and others to draw attention to youth issues worldwide. --- Today is the birthday of Beta-Israelite High Preist(Liqa Kahenat) Hadane Rapheal Takuyo, born on this date on August 12, 1923 . --- On this date on August 12, 2010, a study published in the journal Nature revealed evidence of butchery marks made by stone implements on two animal bone from about 3.4 million years ago. The new analysis it said provided the oldest known evidence of stone-tool use and meat eating behavior in huominids proceeding the homo lineage. The discoveries were found in Ethiopias Dikika research area. --- On this date on August 12, 1915 a devastating hurricane brought massive destruction to the Island of Jamaica, leaving the nation in ruin and forcing many residents out of the rural and into urban centers. Scholars in the subject of the Rastafarianian movement say this event played a role in one of the root causes of the popularity of the back-to-Africa/Ethiopia revival movements that would shortly emerge on the island. (|Source: The First Rasta: Leonard Howell and the Rise of Rastafarianism ) --- On this date on August 12, 2007, another major volcanic eruption occred in northeastern Ethiopia mountain of Erta Ale . Erta Ale, or Smoking Mountain in the local Afar language. It was the most significant eruption since 2005 which devastated the region, forcing tens of thousands of local inhabitants to flee. (Source: Terradaily) (Phoot: An international team of researchers, including Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco (USA) and Dr. Shannon McPherron of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig (Germany), has discovered evidence that human ancestors were using stone tools and consuming the meat and marrow of large mammals 1 million years earlier than previously documented. While working in the Afar region of Ethiopia, the Dikika Research Project (DRP) found bones bearing unambiguous evidence of stone tool use - cut marks made while carving meat off the bone and percussion marks created while breaking the bones open to extract marrow. The bones date to roughly 3.4 million years ago and provide the first evidence that Lucy’s species, Australopithecus afarensis, used stone tools and consumed meat. The research is reported in the August 12th issue of the journal Nature.)
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:14:15 +0000
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