The Omo Kibish Formation in south western Ethiopia, within the East African Rift valley. The oldest human remains in east Africa date back at least 30,000 years earlier than previously thought to ...

The Omo I remains were found in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, within the East African Rift valley. The region is an area of high volcanic activity, ...

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 ...

When the bones of two early humans were found in 1967 near Kibish, Ethiopia, they were thought to be 130,000 years old. A few years ago, researchers found 154,000- to 160,000-year-old human bones ...

Ethiopia's Omo River flows below bluffs of the Kibish rock formation, where scientists first excavated the bones of early humans in 1967 and estimated they were 130,000 years old.

The Omo I fossils are a set of Homo sapiens bones unearthed in the late 1960s, deep in Ethiopia's Omo Kibish formation. The site lies within the Ethiopian Rift, a valley where volcanic activity ...

Ethiopia is top choice for cradle of Homo sapiens . ... The fossils, called Omo I and Omo II, were found in 1967 at Kibish, near Ethiopia's Omo River, by the famed fossil-hunter Richard Leakey.

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 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 debate around the evolution of modern humans has intensified with new findings about Homo sapiens fossils from East ...

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.