The Omo remains are a collection of hominin [note 1] bones discovered between 1967 and 1974 at the Omo Kibish sites near the Omo River, in Omo National Park in south-western Ethiopia. [1] The bones were recovered by a scientific team from the Kenya National Museums directed by Richard Leakey and others. [ 2 ]

2022年1月29日 · Their findings, published in Nature, crowned Omo I the oldest Homo sapiens fossil in eastern Africa and a strong contender for some of the oldest remains of Homo sapiens …

This skull is one of the oldest known Homo sapiens braincases. It was originally thought to be about 130,000 years old, but the sediments in which it was found were re-dated in 2008 using original video footage, photographs, and hand-drawn maps from the 1967 discovery.

2022年1月12日 · Efforts to date the oldest modern human fossils in eastern Africa, from Omo-Kibish 1, 2, 3 and Herto 4, 5 in Ethiopia, have drawn on a variety of chronometric evidence, including 40 Ar/ 39 Ar...

Solo man, prehistoric human known from 11 fossil skulls (without facial skeletons) and 2 leg-bone fragments that were recovered from terraces of the Solo River at Ngandong, Java, in 1931–32. Cranial capacity (1,150–1,300 cubic centimetres) overlaps that of …

2021年10月6日 · From Omo 1 and 2 discovered by Louis Leakey, in Kibish Ethiopia, to Jerbel Irhoud in Morocco, and finally to YOU! The Omo fossils date to about 180k-200,000 years ago, while the Jebel Irhoud remains are closer to 300,000 years old. It sure has been a long journey! Learn all about it from John Hawks here: Dr. Chris Stringer’s papers:

195,000 years ago, Omo-1 was a hunter prowling the east African savanna. Omo-1 died while still in his twenties, but he is the oldest member of our species found anywhere in the world. His...

2022年1月12日 · Using geochemical clues to match the layer of volcanic ash blanketing the fossil to a specific volcanic eruption, they discovered Omo I is 36,000 years older than previously believed.

The Omo Kibish Formation or simply Kibish Formation is a geological formation in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia. It is named after the nearby Omo River and is subdivided into four members known as Members I-IV.

The bones of an early member of our species, Homo sapiens, known as Omo I, excavated from Ethiopia's Kibish rock formation. The bones are kept in the National Museum of Ethiopia. When the first bones from Omo I were found in 1967, they were thought to be 130,000 years old.