In yesterday's paper there was an article about the timeline for the earliest fossils of Homo sapiens having been pushed back thousands of years. The oldest fossils now have been dated to 195,000 years ago, give or take 5,000 years according to the article. Omo I and Omo II are the fossilized fragments, primiarly partial skull fragments, and are so-named because of their area of location near the Omo River in Ethiopia in the 1967 find. New ways of dating have led to the realization that the fossils are much older than once believed. The dating of a volcanic rock layer below the location of the 1967 find is now believed to be the approximate time of the 'fossil-bearing sediment' (AP).