Jebel Irhoud
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Jebel Irhoud or Adrar n Ighoud, is an archaeological site in Morocco located just north of the town of Tlet Ighoud in Youssoufia Province, approximately 50 km south-east of the city of Safi.
Jean-Jacques Hublin at Jebel Irhoud (Morocco), pointing to the crushed human skull (Irhoud 10), whose orbits are visible just beyond his finger tip
Jebel Irhoud-1, dated 286±32 kya, Smithsonian Natural History Museum
A composite reconstruction of the earliest-known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud, based on micro-computed tomographic scans of multiple original fossils
Human
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Humans are the most abundant and widespread species of primates, characterized by bipedalism, minimal body hair, and large, complex brains enabling the development of advanced technology, culture, and
Jebel Irhoud
…that have been found there since the discovery of the site in 1961. Originally thought to be Neanderthals, the specimens have since been assigned to Homo sapiens and, as reported in 2017, have been dated to a "weighted average age" of 315,000 years ago. This makes the remains by far the earliest known examples…
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Reconstruction of Lucy, the first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found
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Medieval French manuscript illustration of the three classes of medieval society from the 13th-century Li Livres dou Santé