epic cave
About This Place
The middle stone age site of Porc epic cave which discovered in 1929 by French priest father Teilhard dechardin& Henry Monfreid is located at 9˚.34˚.27˚.98˚.N,41˚,53˚,19˚,64˚E at an elevation of 1450m and it lies 3Km south of the city of Dire Dawa in south eastern Ethiopia , with in a series of broken faulted lime stone blocks of upper Jurassic origin. Situated near the top of Garad erer, a prominent lime stone hill that rises about 140M above the massive wadi Laga Dachatu, the cave provide an ideal setting from which to monitor migratory herds of prey and has produced Avery rich assemblage of stone tools andfaunalremain(Assefa,2oo6,plerdeau2006).