Fossil hunters in Ethiopia have unearthed an ancient skull which they
say could be a "missing link" between Homo erectus and modern people.
The cranium was found in two pieces and is believed by its discoverers
to be between 500,000 and 250,000 years old.

The project's director, Dr Sileshi Semaw, said the fossilised specimen
came from "a very significant time" in human evolutionary history. It
was found at Gawis in Ethiopia's north-eastern Afar region.

The skull appeared "to be intermediate between the earlier Homo
erectus and the later Homo sapiens ," Sileshi Semaw, an Ethiopian
research scientist at the Stone Age Institute at Indiana University,
US, told a news conference in Addis Ababa.

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