Oldest Human Fossil Found, ... "This narrows the time period in which we can now focus our search for the emergence of the human lineage," says Kimbel, who found the AL 666-1 jaw in 1994.

Oldest Human Fossils Found Fossil hunters in Africa have discovered human bones dating back 160,000 years. Paleontologists say the find adds detail to a crucial period in human evolution, ...

It could also help bridge a gap in evolutionary space between the oldest known human ancestor fossils found in Europe — which are roughly 1.8 million years old and were discovered at a site in ...

After examining the Ledi jaw closely, a team of researchers has now declared its original owner to be the oldest bona fide human ever found. Predating the previous oldest fossil by more than 400 ...

Archaeologists in Spain have unearthed a partial face fossil, believed to be between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old, making it ...

Chinese archaeologists announced on Monday the discovery of a 32,000-year-old human skull in the central province of Henan, the oldest ever found there. Archaeologists and officials said they had ...

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Scientists Have Found the Oldest Known Human Fossils. The 300,000-year-old bones and stone tools were discovered in a surprising place—and could revise the history of our species.

The oldest fossil of the human genus Homo has been unearthed in Ethiopia, a groundbreaking discovery that pushes the history of human evolution 400,000 years further into the past. Found at a site ...

New discoveries are changing archaeologists’ ideas about the origins of our own species and our migration out of Africa. This fossil pushes Homo sapiens’ African exodus date back by 50,000 years.

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