Ledi-Geraru is a paleoanthropological research area in Mille district, Afar Region, northeastern Ethiopia, along the Ledi and Geraru rivers (two left tributaries of the Awash, south of the Mille river).

[2] A hominin mandible was found in 2013, known as LD 350-1 and dated 2.8 million years old, which may qualify as a very early specimen of the genus Homo.

[3] LD 350-1 is a fossil hominin mandible fragment discovered in 2013 at the Ledi-Geraru site.

It was found by Chalachew Seyoum, an Ethiopian graduate student in the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University.

[4] It has been described as combining "primitive traits seen in early Australopithecus with derived morphology observed in later Homo.