Gashin kai na Gawis

Gashin Gawis wani bangare ne na burbushin hominin da aka gano a ranar 16 ga Fabrairu, 2006 kusa da magudanar Gawis, wani yanki na Kogin Awash a cikin Afar Depression, Habasha. Duk da kasancewar yashi na dutsen wuta wanda ke da maɓallin yin soyayya, an tsara gashin kai ne kawai tsakanin shekaru 200,000 da 500,000 da suka gabata saboda matsalolin taphonomic. 

Sileshi Semaw, darektan Gona Project, wanda ke zaune a Cibiyar Stone Age da Cibiyar Binciken CRAFT ta Jami'ar Indiana ne ya ba da rahoton binciken 2006.

 Bincike da muhimmancinsa 
Asahmed Humet, memba na Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project ne ya gano kwanyar hominin; ya gano burbushin da aka sake dawowa kwanan nan a cikin karamin rugujewar da ke shiga cikin kogin Gawis a Yankin Afar, kimanin kilomita 300 a arewa maso gabashin Addis Ababa. Kwancen kusan cikakkiyar kwanyar abin da aka yi imanin cewa kakannin ɗan adam ne na Pleistocene na Tsakiya. Duk da yake ya bambanta da ɗan adam na zamani, ƙwaƙwalwar ƙwaƙwalwa, fuska ta sama da ƙashin kai suna da shaidar jikin mutum wanda ke cikin asalin ɗan adam. Sileshi Semaw, darektan Gona Project a Cibiyar Stone Age ne ya ba da rahoton binciken. Semaw ya lura da burbushin kwanyar na iya zama nau'i na canji wanda ya cika rata a cikin asalin juyin halitta na mutum. Ya bayyana bayyanarsa a matsayin matsakaici tsakanin Homo erectus da Homo sapiens .

An kuma sami mahimman tarin kayan aikin dutse da samfuran burbushin dabbobi da yawa a shafin. 

Gawis yana cikin yankin binciken Gona Research Project wanda ke cikin kwarin Awash River . Nan da nan zuwa gabashin Gona, wanda kuma yake tare da Awash kuma daya daga cikin masu goyon bayansa shine shafin Hadari, inda a cikin 1974 masanin kimiyya na Amurka Donald Johanson ya sami ragowar shekaru miliyan 3.2 na Australopithecus afarensis, wanda aka sani da Lucy. Aikin Awash na Tsakiya, shafin sauran abubuwan da aka gano na hominin, yana kudu.

Baya ga gashin Gawis, yankin aikin Gona ya samar da wasu kayan aikin dutse mafi tsufa a duniya (shekaru miliyan 2.6), da kuma burbushin Ardipithecus ramidus - hominid, kuma an yi muhawara kamar ko hominin - wanda aka rubuta kusan shekaru miliyan 4.5 da suka gabata.

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