Berhane Asfaw

For the anti-FGM activist, born Berhane Asfaw, see Berhane Ras-Work.
Berhane Asfaw
Born (1954-08-22) 22 August 1954
Gondar, Begemder Province, Ethiopian Empire (now Amhara Region, Ethiopia)
Alma materAddis Ababa University University of California Berkeley
OccupationsArchaeologist and Paleontologist
Years active1981–present

Berhane Asfaw (Amharic: ብርሃነ አስፋው; born 22 August 1954) is an Ethiopian paleontologist of Rift Valley Research Service, who co-discovered human skeletal remains at Herto Bouri, Ethiopia later classified as Homo sapiens idaltu, proposed as an early subspecies of anatomically modern humans.

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