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This thesis presents the vertebrate paleontology of the Early Pleistocene Daka Member, Middle Awash, Ethiopia, including its geological and chronological contexts. Focused work on the Daka Member began in 1981 under the guidance of Desmond Clark and Tim White, and intensified be…

This dissertation presents the description and analysis of the hominid postcranial fossils recovered from the 2.5 million year-old deposits of the Middle Awash area of Ethiopia. These fossils, labeled here as the “Hata postcranial fossils” after the Hata beds of the Middle Awash…