• Omo remains (redirect from Omo-Kibish I)
    collection of hominin bones discovered between 1967 and 1974 at the Omo Kibish sites near the Omo River, in Omo National Park in south-western Ethiopia...
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    The Omo Kibish Formation or simply Kibish Formation is a geological formation in the Lower Omo Valley of southwestern Ethiopia. It is named after the...
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    volcanoes in Ethiopia, located in east Africa. In Southern Ethiopia, the Omo Kibish Rock Formation is composed of layers of tephra and sediment. Within these...
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    in Morocco (about 315 ka), Florisbad in South Africa (259 ka), and Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) in southern Ethiopia (c. 233 or 195 ka). Some examples of archaic...
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  • Kibish River is a river of southern Ethiopia, which defines part of that country's border with South Sudan and Kenya. It flows towards Lake Turkana, although...
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    and dispersed from there. The recognition of Homo sapiens idaltu and Omo Kibish as anatomically modern humans would justify the description of contemporary...
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    local fossil finds, the Omo remains, were excavated in the southwestern Omo Kibish area and have been dated to the Middle Paleolithic, around 200,000 years...
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    Keleta River Mojo River Akaki River Dechatu River Meki River Katar River Kibish River Omo River Usno River Mago River Neri River Mui River Mantsa River...
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  • Kemi River kizu River Kembe River Koss River Kidepo River Medikiret River Kibish River Abara River Achwa Adar River Agwei River Akobo River Bahr el Ghazal...
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    List of Ethiopian rivers List of fossil sites (with link directory) Omo Kibish Formation Omo Remains List of World Heritage Sites in Ethiopia "Lower Valley...
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    (February 2005). "Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia" (PDF). Nature. 433 (7027): 733–736. Bibcode:2005Natur.433..733M...
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  • John G. (2005). "Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia" (PDF). Nature. 433 (7027): 733–736. Bibcode:2005Natur.433..733M...
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  • Nationalities and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) Omo National Park, Ethiopia Omo Kibish Formation, an East African rock formation Omo remains, a collection of hominid...
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    followers, estimated to be 200-300. They're especially notable around the Kibish town and among those that left the area to study. The economy of the Suri...
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    Homo sapiens, dated to approximately 195,000 years ago and found in Omo Kibish, Ethiopia, indicated an eastern African origin for humans at approximately...
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    Among the oldest known remains of Homo sapiens are those found at the Omo-Kibish I archaeological site in south-western Ethiopia, dating to about 233,000...
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    Kakuma Kalokol 28,735 5 Kalokol Katilu 12,548 10 katilu Kerio 15,409 6 Kibish 6,056 – Lapur 12,780 6 Lokichar 21,791 5 Lokichar Lokichogio 36,187 5 Lokichogio...
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    earliest member of the genus, with the oldest remains, from the Ethiopian Omo Kibish Formation, dated to 2.6 million years ago (mya) at the end of the Pliocene...
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  • Zelalem; Brown, Francis H.; Shea, John J. (2008). "Paleoanthropology of the Kibish Formation, southern Ethiopia: Introduction". Journal of Human Evolution...
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    Laetoli Lake Suguta List of rivers of Kenya Middle Awash Olduvai Gorge Omo Kibish Formation Rift Valley lakes Tugen Hills Hydrological Impacts of Ethiopia’s...
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    early H. sapiens fossils from Florisbad in South Africa (~260 ka), Omo Kibish (~195 ka) and Herto (~160 ka), both in Ethiopia, are morphologically diverse...
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    earliest anatomically modern human skulls found so far were discovered at Omo Kibish,Jebel Irhoud, and Florisbad. European archaeology, as well as that of North...
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    Nariokotome River, Kenya. Modern humans, who left behind remains, resided at Omo Kibish in 233,000 BP. Afro-Asiatic speakers and Nilo-Saharan speakers expanded...
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    Fleagle, JG (2005). "Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia" (PDF). Nature. 433 (7027): 733–736. Bibcode:2005Natur.433..733M...
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    Africa to Eurasia from before 1.8 and up to 0.5 million years ago. Omo-Kibish I (Omo I) from southern Ethiopia is the oldest anatomically modern Homo...
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    earliest member of the genus, with the oldest remains, from the Ethiopian Omo Kibish Formation, dated to 2.6 mya at the end of the Pliocene. It is sometimes...
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  • definitive examples of anatomically modern Homo sapiens from the site of Omo Kibish in Ethiopia, known as the Omo remains. In the late 1970s, Mary Leakey excavated...
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    earliest member of the genus, with the oldest remains, from the Ethiopian Omo Kibish Formation, dated to 2.6 million years ago (mya) at the end of the Pliocene...
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    Cherangani Kwanza Saboti Kitale Kiminini Central (Kalokol) Kakuma Katilu Kibish Lake Turkana Lokitaung Lokori Turkwel Ainabkoi Kesses Moiben Soy Eldoret...
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    declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980, after the discovery (in the Omo Kibish Formation) of the earliest known fossil fragments of Homo sapiens, which...
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