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After six years of research, scientists released a report in 2003 saying that Herto Man skulls were the oldest-known human remains yet found. The skull is estimated to be about 160,000 years old and confirmed the old theory that modern humans evolved in Africa.
7 gru 2017 · Little Foot is a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus skeleton found in South Africa. It is the most complete hominin skeleton older than 1.5 million years and reveals how our early ancestors walked, lived and ate.
7 cze 2017 · Researchers say that they have found the oldest Homo sapiens remains on record in an improbable place: Morocco. At an archaeological site near the Atlantic coast, finds of skull, face and jaw...
28 cze 2022 · Fossils of early humans from a South African cave are 3.4 million to 3.6 million years old, a million years older than previously suspected.
12 sty 2022 · The oldest ever remains of what appear to be anatomically modern humans were found in Morocco, and are believed to be about 360,000 years old - but it is not a certainty that they actually belong to humans rather than a closely related species.
13 sty 2022 · Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo One bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study argues they're around 233,000 years...
7 cze 2017 · At Herto, in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley, researchers dated H. sapiens skulls to about 160,000 years ago; farther south at Omo Kibish, two skullcaps are dated to about 195,000 years ago, making them the oldest widely accepted members of our species, until now.
