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SUBMITTER: Vidal CM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8791829 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vidal Céline M CM Lane Christine S CS Asrat Asfawossen A Barfod Dan N DN Mark Darren F DF Tomlinson Emma L EL Tadesse Amdemichael Zafu AZ Yirgu Gezahegn G Deino Alan A Hutchison William W Mounier Aurélien A Oppenheimer Clive C
Nature 20220112 7894
Efforts to date the oldest modern human fossils in eastern Africa, from Omo-Kibish<sup>1-3</sup> and Herto<sup>4,5</sup> in Ethiopia, have drawn on a variety of chronometric evidence, including <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar ages of stratigraphically associated tuffs. The ages that are generally reported for these fossils are around 197 thousand years (kyr) for the Kibish Omo I<sup>3,6,7</sup>, and around 160-155 kyr for the Herto hominins<sup>5,8</sup>. However, the stratigraphic relationships ...[more]