A composite reconstruction shows the earliest known Homo sapiens fossils found just west of Morocco at the archeological cave site called Jebel Irhoud. (Philipp Gunz, MPI EVA Leipzig)Bones found in a cave in Morocco add 100,000 years to the history of modern human fossils. The oldest Homo sapiens bones known date to about 200,000 years ago, but the new analysis shows these bones are surprisingly old: 300,000 to 350,000 years old. In the late 1960s, Richard Leakey and his fellow paleoanthropologists found Homo sapiens fossils from the Kibish Formation of Ethiopia, dated at the time as 130,000 years old. (Philipp Gunz/MPI EVA Leipzig)The site is far north of where other early Homo sapiens bones have been discovered.

Source: Washington Post June 07, 2017 17:05 UTC