Oldest Modern Homo Sapiens Fossils Found. This is 100000 years older than previously discovered fossils of Homo sapiens. Until the latest findings from Jebel Irhoud the oldest known remnants of our species were found at Omo Kibish in.
It is widely accepted that our species evolved in Africathe oldest known Homo sapiens fossils were found in Morocco and date back 315000 years agoand first ventured out of the continent between. In 2003 researchers working at a site called Herto discovered a skull estimated to be between. Date of Homo sapiens fossils found in Omo Kibish Ethiopia.
This is 100000 years older than previously discovered fossils of Homo.
Until the latest findings from Jebel Irhoud the oldest known remnants of our species were found at Omo Kibish in. 160000-year-old fossilized skulls uncovered in Ethiopia are oldest anatomically modern humans Robert Sanders 11 June 2003 BERKELEY - The fossilized skulls of two adults and one child discovered in the Afar region of eastern Ethiopia have been dated at 160000 years making them the oldest known fossils of modern humans or Homo sapiens. This is 100000 years older than previously discovered fossils of Homo. The oldest human fossils ever found outside Africa suggest that Homo sapiens might have spread to the Arabian Peninsula around 180000 years ago much earlier than previously thought.