Thread: Humans 80,000 Years Older Than Previously Thought?

Originally Posted by TheOriginalGrumpySpy

I thought Lucy (lol 9th grade bio) was the oldest skeleton we could find.

They found tool's that predated the earliest known humans. There was no skeleton found.

But it was not until this year that new dating techniques revealed the tools to be far older than the oldest known Homo sapien bones, which are around 195,000 years old.

Using argon-argon dating—a technique that compares different isotopes of the element argon—researchers determined that the volcanic ash layers entombing the tools at Gademotta date back at least 276,000 years