The woman portrayed here represents a population of early Homo sapiens whose remains have been uncovered at the site of Jebel Irhoud in Morocco. Dated to around 300,000 years ago, their fossils may be the oldest assigned to the modern human species thus far. However, the braincases of the Jebel Irhoud people’s skulls have a longer, lower shape than those of humans today, a characteristic considered more “archaic” in paleoanthropology.