Everything about Homo Sapiens Idaltu totally explained
Homo sapiens idaltu is an extinct
subspecies of
Homo sapiens that lived almost
160,000 years ago in
Pleistocene Africa. is the
Afar for "elder, first born".
The
fossilized remains of
H. s. idaltu were discovered at
Herto Bouri in the
Middle Awash site of
Ethiopia's
Afar Triangle in
1997 by
Tim White, but were first unveiled in
2003. Herto Bouri is a region of Ethiopia under volcanic layers. By using
radioisotope dating, the layers date between 154,000 and 160,000 years old. Three well preserved crania are accounted for, the best preserved being from an adult male (BOU-VP-16/1) having a brain capacity of 1450
cm³. The other crania include another partial adult male and a six year old child.
These fossils differ from those of early (but chronologically later) forms of
H. sapiens such as
Cro-Magnon found in
Europe and other parts of the world in that their
morphology has many archaic features not typical of
H. sapiens (although modern human skulls do differ across the globe). Despite the archaic features, these specimens are postulated to represent the direct ancestors of modern
Homo sapiens sapiens, which according to the recent "
Out of Africa" theory developed shortly after this period (
Khoisan mitochondrial divergence dated not later than 110,000 B.P.) in
Eastern Africa, and as such, to be the oldest representative of the
H. sapiens species found so far.
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