Dec 7, 2017 · After 20 years of slow, careful excavation, the world's most complete skeleton of an ancient human ancestor has just been unveiled. It belongs to the genus Australopithecus, and …

After 1.5 million years ago (extinction of Paranthropus), all fossils shown are human (genus Homo). After 11,500 years ago (11.5 ka, beginning of the Holocene), all fossils shown are …

The jawbone found at the Uraha Hill paleoanthropological site in Malawi is the oldest known human fossil in the world. The exact age of the jawbone is unknown but is estimated to be …

Jan 12, 2022 · Using geochemical clues to match the layer of volcanic ash blanketing the fossil to a specific volcanic eruption, they discovered Omo I is 36,000 years older than previously …

Oct 3, 2023 · Found in Hadar, Ethiopia, Lucy is the oldest and most complete human fossil ever found, making up 40% of a complete human skeleton. She was dated at 3.2 million years old …

2 days ago · Oldest European human fossil possibly found in Spain. Jul 8, 2022. Teeth of Homo antecessor shed light on trends in Pleistocene hominin dental evolution. Oct 3, 2018. …

6 days ago · WASHINGTON (AP) — A fossil of a partial face from a human ancestor is the oldest in western Europe, archaeologists reported Wednesday. The incomplete skull — a section of …

May 18, 2020 · Archaeologists recently dated H. sapiens fossils found there to around 315,000 years ago. The find significantly extended our species’ timeline, as the previous oldest H. …

6 days ago · A collection of older fossils from early human ancestors was previously found in Georgia, near the crossroads of eastern Europe and Asia.Those are estimated to be 1.8 …

4 days ago · These fossils, dated to around 900,000 years ago, challenged the previous notion that the earliest human presence in Western Europe was no older than half a million years.