Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?

Thursday, December 4, 2008 - 10:43 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Stone tools found in Ethiopia, likely crafted by the earliest Homo sapiens, have been dated to at least 276,000 years ago—80,000 years before our earliest relatives were thought to roam Africa.

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