Amud 1 has the smallest cranial capacity of any archaic hominin.
Curle in 1937 identified jars in Amud resembling honey jars still common in Harar however no longer used in Somaliland
 Huntingford noticed that whenever a historic site had the prefix Aw in its name (such as the ruins of Awbare and Awbube), it denoted the final resting place of a local Saint

