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Detailed explanation-1: -The Ardi skeleton was discovered at Aramis in the arid badlands near the Awash River in Ethiopia in 1994 by a college student, Yohannes Haile-Selassie, when he uncovered a partial piece of a hand bone. The discovery was made by a team of scientists led by UC Berkeley anthropologist, Tim D.

Detailed explanation-2: -In an article in the Sept. 22 issue of Nature, the team describes fossils of the earliest-known hominids, discovered in the Middle Awash region near Aramis, Ethiopia. The material is 4.4 million years old, almost a million years older than Australopithecus afarensis, hitherto the earliest-known human ancestor.