A prehistoric eruption has helped recalibrate our timeline of human origins in Africa
Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo 1 bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study may have the answer.
In the late 1960s, archaeologists discovered a set of familiar bones in Ethiopia: a skull bone, a lower jaw, and parts of a torso.
This collection is known as Omo 1, and at 200,000 years old are considered some of the oldest human remains ever
