Jebel Irhoud

Jebel Irhoud is a cave in Morocco where they've found seven hominid fossils since 1991. The fossils are dated to about 160,000 years ago.

Sometimes I feel like we put too much emphasis on these findings, and I worry that we make grand assumptions on entire species of Early Man based on the fossilized bones of certain random individuals who lived. Maybe they were special?


The Flinstones were based on fossilized remains.
Photo: Thomas Hawk via Flickr (CC)