Fossils discovered in a cave in Casablanca and dated to around 773,000 years ago fill a major gap in the African hominin record and offer rare insight into a population that lived just before the split between modern humans and Neanderthals–Denisovans.
Scientists in Morocco have discovered one of the largest late Pleistocene footprint sites globally. 85 human footprints, roughly 129,000 to 11,700 years ago.
Producer of the documentary film «Homo sapiens: the new origins», broadcast on Arte, Al Aoula, and 2M, Hind Saih is a fan of this cinematographic genre and has been producing it for two decades. For this Moroccan living in France, «telling our story, that of our parents and our grandparents is a duty».
A recent study has revealed that all modern humans originated from Botswana. The findings come as Morocco was referred to as the cradle of humanity in 2017, being home to the oldest Homo sapiens fossils.
Since Wednesday, Morocco has been at the core of all top stories because of a new discovery that could change the way scientists look at the history of humanity. Professor Abdelouahed Bennacer and Jean-Jacques Hublin alongside a specialized team unearthed a fossil of Homo Sapiens in Jbel Irhoud, a discovery that stands as a new era for science.
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