Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia

I. Mcdougall; Francis H. Brown; J. Fleagle

DOI:10.1038/nature03258

Corpus ID: 1454595

Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia

@article{Mcdougall2005StratigraphicPA,
  title={Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia},
  author={I. Mcdougall and Francis H. Brown and J. Fleagle},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2005},
  volume={433},
  pages={733-736}
}

I. Mcdougall, Francis H. Brown, J. Fleagle

Published 2005

Geology, Medicine, Geography

Nature

In 1967 the Kibish Formation in southern Ethiopia yielded hominid cranial remains identified as early anatomically modern humans, assigned to Homo sapiens . However, the provenance and age of the fossils have been much debated. Here we confirm that the Omo I and Omo II hominid fossils are from similar stratigraphic levels in Member I of the Kibish Formation, despite the view that Omo I is more modern in appearance than Omo II. 40Ar/39Ar ages on feldspar crystals from pumice clasts within a tuff… CONTINUE READING

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