Idalt Man ( lat. Homo sapiens idaltu ) - one of the oldest representatives of people of a modern species , found at the location of the Herto Formation of Bouri ( en: Bouri Formation ) in Ethiopia . “Idalt” in Afar means “eldest, oldest.” The approximate age of the find is from 154 to 160 thousand years [1] . The discovery was made in 1997 by a group of paleontologists from the University of California under the direction of Tim White and published in 2003 . Three human skulls are known. The best preserved skull of an adult male (BOU-VP-16/1) has a brain volume of 1450 cm³.
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It is assumed that this subspecies, possessing a number of archaic craniological characters, could be the immediate ancestor of the modern subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens .
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- ↑ White, Tim D .; Asfaw, B .; DeGusta, D .; Gilbert, H .; Richards, GD; Suwa, G .; Howell, FC (2003), “Pleistocene Homo sapiens from Middle Awash, Ethiopia” - Nature 423 (6491): 742-747