The floor really used to be lava—sort of. Connecting the ash layer at Omo Kibish with the Shala caldera eruption makes the oldest known Homo sapiens skull about 36,000 years older than a ...

The ages that are generally reported for these fossils are around 197 thousand years (kyr) for the Kibish Omo I3,6,7, and around 160–155 kyr for the Herto hominins5,8.

The Omo I remains were found in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, ... By dating the layers of volcanic ash above and below where archaeological and fossil materials are found, ...

The Omo I skeleton was found in 1967 at the Omo Kibish Formation of southwestern Ethiopia. The site is positioned within the East African Rift valley, an area prone to volcanic activity.

The Omo I remains were found in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, ... By dating the layers of volcanic ash above and below where archaeological and fossil materials are found, ...

At the Kibish formation, researchers were stumped by a massive layer of ash, more than six feet thick, just above the sediments where Omo I and other fossils were found.

In the late 1960s, scientists uncovered remains of Homo sapiens in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia and believed they were almost 200,000 years old. New research says they’re … ...

Researchers at the Omo Kibish Formation in Southwestern Ethiopia, the site of the earliest known human remains (courtesy Al Deino) Success! Your account was created and you’re signed in. Please ...

The Omo Kibish formation, where researchers are dating ancient volcanic eruptions. Céline Vidal Their research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, is part of a larger effort to date ...

The remains, dubbed Omo I, were discovered at the Omo Kibish site near Ethiopia's Omo river in the 1960s. Previous estimates dated the human fossils to around 195,000 years old.