Berhane Asfaw

Berhane Asfaw
Born22 August 1954
NationalityEthiopian
Alma materAddis Ababa University University of California Berkeley
Occupation(s)Archaeologist 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.[1]

  1. ^ Shipman, Pat. We Are All Africans Archived 2012-03-05 at the Wayback Machine, American Scientist.