In 1961, miners in Morocco dug up a few pieces of a skull at a site called Jebel Irhoud. “It did not make sense,” Dr. Hublin, now at the Max Planck Institute, recalled in an interview. Since 2004, Dr. Hublin and his colleagues have been working through layers of rocks on a desert hillside at Jebel Irhoud. The people of Jebel Irhoud most likely made them for many purposes, putting some on wooden handles to fashion spears. The fossils at Jebel Irhoud raise the possibility that they were made by early Homo sapiens.

Source: New York Times June 07, 2017 16:52 UTC