Jebel Irhoud or Adrar n Ighoud (Standard Moroccan Tamazight: ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⵉⵖⵓⴷ, romanized: Adrar n Iɣud; Arabic: جبل إيغود, Moroccan Arabic: žbəl iġud), is an archaeological site located just north of the locality known as Tlet Ighoud, approximately 50 km (30 mi) south-east of the city of Safi in Morocco. It is noted for the hominin fossils that have been found there since the discovery of the site in 1960. Originally thought to be Neanderthals, the specimens have since been assigned to Homo sapiens and, as reported in 2017, have been dated to roughly 300,000 years ago (286±32 ka for the Irhoud 3 mandible, 315±34 ka based on other fossils and the flint artefacts found nearby).[2][3][4][5]
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Richter, Daniel; Grün, Rainer; Joannes-Boyau, Renaud; Steele, Teresa E.; Amani, Fethi; Rué, Mathieu; Fernandes, Paul; Raynal, Jean-Paul; Geraads, Denis; Ben-Ncer, Abdelouahed; Hublin, Jean-Jacques; McPherron, Shannon P. (8 June 2017). "The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age". Nature. 546 (7657): 293–296. Bibcode:2017Natur.546..293R. doi:10.1038/nature22335. PMID 28593967. S2CID 205255853.
"Here we report the ages, determined by thermoluminescence dating, of fire-heated flint artefacts obtained from new excavations at the Middle Stone Age site of Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, which are directly associated with newly discovered remains of H. sapiens8. A weighted average age places these Middle Stone Age artefacts and fossils at 315 ± 34 thousand years ago. Support is obtained through the recalculated uranium series with electron spin resonance date of 286 ± 32 thousand years ago for a tooth from the Irhoud 3 hominin mandible.";
Smith, Tanya M.; Tafforeau, Paul; Reid, Donald J.; Grün, Rainer; Eggins, Stephen; Boutakiout, Mohamed; Hublin, Jean-Jacques (10 April 2007). "Earliest evidence of modern human life history in North African early Homo sapiens". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (15): 6128–6133. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104.6128S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0700747104. PMC 1828706. PMID 17372199.
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Florisbad site in South Africa, dating to about 259,000 years ago, and the JebelIrhoud site in Morocco, dated about 315,000 years ago. Extinct species of the...
modern humans). Among the earliest modern human remains are those from JebelIrhoud in Morocco (about 315 ka), Florisbad in South Africa (259 ka), and Omo-Kibish...
based in part on thermoluminescence dating of artifacts and remains from JebelIrhoud, Morocco, published in 2017. The Florisbad Skull from Florisbad, South...
2016 Chris Stringer argued that the Florisbad Skull, along with the JebelIrhoud and Eliye Springs specimens, belong to an archaic or "early" form of...
Peștera cu Oase (- 0.378e+05) The eldest findings of Homo sapiens in JebelIrhoud, Morocco date back c. 300,000 years Fossils of Homo sapiens were found...
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig revealed that the JebelIrhoud site and its Homo sapiens fossils were far older than first thought....
reported from Ngaloba, Tanzania; Omo, Ethiopia; Eliye Springs, Kenya; and JebelIrhoud, Morocco. In another simultaneously published paper, British physical...
classification as H. sapiens was then disputed). With the dating of the JebelIrhoud 1–5 to before 250 ka (315 ± 34 ka, and 286±32 ka) in 2017, as well as...
examinations revealed that the JebelIrhoud specimens are similar to them in some respects but differ in that the JebelIrhoud specimens have a continuous...
Richter; et al. (8 June 2017). "The age of the hominin fossils from JebelIrhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age". Nature. 546 (7657):...
extending this time to as high as 300,000 years. In 2017, fossils found in JebelIrhoud (Morocco) suggest that Homo sapiens may have speciated by as early as...
Shuqba Cave, Levant; reports of Neanderthals from the North African JebelIrhoud and Haua Fteah have been reidentified as H. sapiens. Their easternmost...
Early anatomically modern humans are known to have been present at JebelIrhoud, in what is now Morocco, approximately 300,000 years ago. The Nile Valley...
States. The earliest geographical evidence of a human settlement was JebelIrhoud, where early modern human remains of eight individuals date back to the...
(around 233,000 years old). There are even older Homo sapiens fossils from JebelIrhoud in Morocco which exhibit a mixture of modern and archaic features at...
The discovery of modern human made tools from about 125,000 years ago at Jebel Faya, United Arab Emirates, in the Arabian Peninsula, may be from an even...
Morocco spans since the Lower Paleolithic, with the earliest known being JebelIrhoud. Much later Morocco was part of Iberomaurusian culture, including Taforalt...
300–200,000 years ago such as the Herto and Omo remains of Ethiopia, JebelIrhoud remains of Morocco, and Florisbad remains of South Africa; later fossils...
anatomically modern humans (as of 2017[update]) are fossils found at JebelIrhoud, Morocco, dated about 360,000 years old. Early human migrations Pre-modern...
that had been discovered in the late 2000s near the Atlantic coast in JebelIrhoud were recently dated to roughly 315,000 years ago. During the Upper Paleolithic...
extending this time to as high as 300,000 years. In 2017, fossils found in JebelIrhoud (Morocco) suggest that Homo sapiens may have speciated by as early as...
2017 finds of modern human remains, dating to ca 300,000 years ago in JebelIrhoud in Morocco, suggested that modern humans arose earlier and possibly in...
Jean-Paul; Geraads, Denis (2017-06-07). "The age of the hominin fossils from JebelIrhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age". Nature. 546 (7657):...
sapiens H. s. sapiens (archaic homo sapiens, anatomically modern humans) JebelIrhoud H. s. idaltu Cro-Magnon Manot people Tam Pa Ling Red Deer Cave people...
D. Richter & others (8 June 2017). "The Age of Hominin Fossils from JebelIrhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age". Nature. 546 (7657):...
000-260,000 years ago. The earliest known Homo sapiens fossils include the JebelIrhoud remains from Morocco (c. 315,000 years ago), the Florisbad Skull from...
characteristics is a lack of significant body hair compared to other primates. See JebelIrhoud. c. 300,000–30,000 BP – Mousterian (Neanderthal) culture in Europe. c...
during the Middle Paleolithic (300,000 years ago), as attested by the by JebelIrhoud 1. Without morphological discontinuity, the Aterian was succeeded by...
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