Chilga Kernet: an Acheulean landscape on Ethiopia's western plateau. (News & Notes).(Brief Article) From: Antiquity | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: Glantz, Michelle; Kappelman, John; Todd, Lawrence | COPYRIGHT 2002 Antiquity Publications, Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

In the closing days of the British Abyssinian campaign, J. Desmond Clark spent a hurried hour at a Fauresmith site east of Gondar, Ethiopia, collecting artefacts that are now described as Acheulian bifaces. He then left to participate in the military assault on the town (Clark 1945) and the next day, 27 November 1941, witnessed the fall of Gondar and the final liberation of Ethiopia from Italian rule. Shortly thereafter, Moysey excavated a small rock shelter near the former Italian...

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