The oldest known fossils of Homo sapiens in eastern Africa could be at least 36,000 years older than previously thought, according to a paper published in Nature
This study was supported by the Leverhulme Trust and the Cambridge-Africa ALBORADA Research Fund . Ar-Ar dating was supported by grant NIGFSC IP-1683-1116 through the UK Natural Environment Research Council. The iCRAG LA-ICP-MS facility at Trinity College Dublin is supported by SFI award 13/RC/2092.
Piermattei, I. Buisman and J. Day for assistance with sample preparation and microprobe analyses in Cambridge. The manuscript has benefited from comments by W. Hart and C. Feibel, and we are grateful to them for their input.Céline M. Vidal, Christine S. Lane & Clive OppenheimerSchool of Earth Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaDepartment of Mining and Geological Engineering, Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Palapye, BotswanaDan N.
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