Oldest Human Fossil Outside of Africa Discovered, With Tools Nearby (1 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Oldest Human Fossil Outside of Africa Discovered, With Tools Nearby (1 of 11)

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Location of early modern human fossils in Africa and the Middle East. The fossils from Jebel Irhoud date to 315,000 years ago and are thus older than Misliya, while those from Omo Kibish (195,000) and Herto (160,000) are similar in age to Misliya (177,000-194,000). The 3-D virtual reconstruction of the Misliya-1 maxilla and several Early Middle Paleolithic stone tools from Misliya Cave are also included. Similar stone tools have been found at Jebel Irhoud. Image modified from [http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_rec.php?vev1id=11656 "Blue Marble"]. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 26, 2018 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by I. Hershkovitz at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel, and colleagues was titled, "The earliest modern humans outside Africa."

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Rolf Quam, Binghamton University

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