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Excavation ongoing places tagged “homo sapiens” in Ethiopia · Mysteria

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Excavation ongoing places tagged “homo sapiens” in Ethiopia

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🇪🇹 Ethiopia

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Archaeological wonder

Omo Kibish Formation (Omo I & II)

Middle Pleistocene to Late Pleistocene (200–100 ka; Homo sapiens earliest 195 ka) · Homo sapiens (early anatomically modern)

Formation yielding earliest Homo sapiens Omo I skull re-dated 195 ka (now 230 ka debate?) and fauna in Kibish Member I tuff.