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 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, ...

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 ...

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 … ...

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, ...

Study co-author Professor Asfawossen Asrat, of Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, said: “Our closer look into the stratigraphy of the Omo Kibish Formation, particularly the ash layers, allowed ...

The earliest known existence of modern humans, or Homo sapiens, was previously dated to be around 200,000 years ago. It’s a view supported by genetic analysis and dated Homo sapiens fossils (Omo ...

The fossils, called Omo I and Omo II, were found in 1967 at Kibish, near Ethiopia's Omo ... "Archaeological finds from southern Africa suggest that that region may have played an important ...

The fossils, called Omo I and Omo II, were found in 1967 at Kibish, near Ethiopia's Omo ... "Archaeological finds from southern Africa suggest that that region may have played an important ...