Talk:Hadar, Ethiopia

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Peer Review Suggestions
The article is generally good. My only suggestions would be to clarify the second introduction paragraph (specify what exactly was discovered and when) and to add more factual citations, particularly in the Archaeological findings and sightings section. — Preceding signed comment added by Calauritzen (talk • contribs) 20:59, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Geography
This is not a "populated place". It is the name of a minor tributary of the Awash, which was extended to the nearby area for the purposes of naming the paleontological site. The closest populated place appears to be Adayitu (according to google maps: "Kalle Ali"?), about 12 km to the east, where the A1 road crosses the Awash. --dab (𒁳) 09:16, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

There appears to be a closer "populated place", called "Ellen Dosa" by google. It appears to be a single farmhouse, a silo(?), and a couple of longish barns. It's at 11.124°N, 40.5495°W. This is some 2 km south of the Hadar (Qadaqar) riverbed itself. There are no traces of human habitation along the Hadar proper -- this sudden patch of human activitiy in the midst of uninhabited badlands suggests to me that we are here looking at the structures set up by the paleontological research project itself (but no idea where the name "Ellen Dosa" is coming from).

[The "allcaps toponyms" sprinkled across google maps, whence we take "Kalle Ali" and "Ellen Dosa" are highly unreliable, sometimes in weird spellings and sometimes absolutely intractable, thus "Ellen Dosa" must be treated as unsubstantiated, and the name "Adayitu", taken from a published map, is to be preferred over google's "Kalle Ali"] -- Adayitu (also Adaitou, Adayetu) is a real place (kebele) that occasionally pops up in the news, mostly due to (of course) Somali-Ethiopian ethnic conflict.

--dab (𒁳) 09:26, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Unattached refs
The following refs were added under the heading "Paleofauna" with no accompanying text. Someone may want to extract from them whatever information might be useful for the article and cite them appropriately. Deor (talk) 18:18, 20 February 2023 (UTC)