Paleoanthropologic research in Chad

The Chad occupies an important place for the paleoanthropologic research with the international level. Several major discoveries were made there during the last decades which do one of the cradles of Humanity of them.

  • 1961 : Salted, cook at the Management of the Mines and the Geology of the Republic of Chad discovers in the basin of Borkou, on the cliffside of Angamma, vis-a-vis the small palm plantation of Yayo a cranium of Hominidé which it gives to Mrs Francoise Coppens. He will be named by Yves Coppens Tchadanthropus uxoris , “the man of Chad of the wife”. He would be close to Homo erectus , and would be old of a million years.

  • January 23rd, 1995: Mamelbaye Tomalta, driver with the Mining Project of the Management of Geological and Mining Research of the Republic of Chad, discovers in Koro-Toro Abel, the first specimen of a Hominidé named Australopithecus bahrelghazali . It would be contemporary Australopithecus afarensis , and would be old from 3 to 3,5 million years.

  • July 19th, 2001: Ahounta Djimdoumalbaye, free-lance at the National center of Support to the Research of the Republic of Chad, discovers in the area of the erg of Djourab known as “Toro-Ménala” Toumaï, the first specimen of a Hominidé named Sahelanthropus tchadensis . Its age is estimated at 7 million years.

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