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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Ish Gebor: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by xyyman: [qb] In 1960, mining operations in the Jebel Irhoud massif 55 km southeast of Safi, Morocco exposed a Palaeolithic site in the Pleistocene filling of a karstic network. An almost complete skull (Irhoud 1) was accidentally unearthed in 1961, prompting excavations that yielded an adult braincase (Irhoud 2)4, an immature mandible (Irhoud 3)5, an immature humeral shaft6, an immature ilium7 and a fragment of a mandible8, associated with abundant faunal remains and Levallois stone-tool technology6. Although these human remains were all reported to come from the bottom of the archaeological deposits, only the precise location of the humeral shaft was recorded. The interpretation of the Irhoud hominins has long been complicated by persistent uncertainties surrounding their geological age. They were initially considered to be around 40 thousand years (kyr) old and[b] an African form of Neanderthals9[/b]. However, these affinities have been challenged5,10,11 and the faunal8 and microfaunal12 evidence supported a Middle Pleistocene age for the site. An attempt to date one of the hominins directly by uranium series combined with electron spin resonance (U-series/ESR)3 suggested an age of 160 ± 16 kyr (ref. 13). Consistent with some genetic evidence14, [/qb][/QUOTE]Well observed, [i]"old and an African form of Neanderthals"[/i] ~New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens [/QB][/QUOTE]
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