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Jebel Irhoud

Moroccan cave where 2017 redating of fossils and Middle Stone Age tools pushed the origin of Homo sapiens back to roughly 300,000 years, the oldest known remains of our species.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 313,050 years ago mainstream
  Burnt flints thermoluminescence dated to 315,000 years, placing the earliest known Homo sapiens here source

Where

31.8550° N, 8.8725° W

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22335
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jebel_Irhoud

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