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More compelling reasons to believe that Africa is indeed the origin of humankind continued to resurface.
This time around, not about the 19th-century transatlantic slave trade but of a bone unearthed in Omo Kibish, an archeological site along the Omo River in Southern Ethiopia.

Human fossils were discovered at the Omo Kibish by an international expedition led by a Kenyan archeologist, Kamoya Kimeu, in 1967. Still, after a good dating years later using laser ablation elemental Uranium, Thorium, and Uranium-series isotope analysis, the fossils were dated to be 195,000 years old.

Among the discovered fossils were a skull, vertebrae fragments, ribs, fragments of both right foot and lower legs, a piece of the left pelvis, the lower end of the right leg, bones of the right hand, upper limbs, and shoulder bones.

Omo-1, as called, was believed to be a hunter around the East Africa savanna; he was thought to have weighed 150 pounds and was 5’9″. With the discoveries made at the Omo site, Genetic research claimed that modern humans – the Homo Sapiens- have existed for over 200,000 years.

Another site still along the Omo River, Omo II, was discovered. At the site, skulls showed more primitive characteristics than the Omo I was believed to be 130,000 years old.
Two pieces of a femur belonging to Omo I. While the lower part of the femur was discovered at the Omo Kibish; the upper part was unearthed at the same location in 2001.

According to a theory (Out of Africa I)... Continue reading � https://54history.com/the-omo-i-modern-humans-discovered-in-omo-kibish-ethiopia/

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