Previously, the oldest known remains were from the Kibish Omo site in Ethiopia, dated to about 195,000 years ago. However, a paper published on January 12, 2022, in Nature revealed evidence ...

The Omo I remains were found in the Omo Kibish Formation in southwestern Ethiopia, within the East African Rift valley. So the scientific answer to the Garden of Eden may reside in Africa.

Until now, the earliest fossils resembling anatomically modern humans were from Omo Kibish in Ethiopia, dating to around 200,000 years ago. The Jebel Irhoud discoveries help fill a critical gap in ...

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The "strong and serene" face of a man who is the oldest known human being after his remains were found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, can now be seen for the first time in 300,000 years ...

The skulls, known as Omo I and II, push back the known presence of Homo sapiens in Africa by 40,000 years. The latest dating work is reported in the science journal Nature. ... whose team unearthed ...

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 ...