The researchers tried to extract DNA for analysis, but apparently organic remains were too poorly preserved for a good analysis. why would an individual have derived traits of both ‘modern’ humans and Neandertals?). A more rigorous analysis of what this mix of traits means would have been nice (i.e. The authors examined what little of the morphology was left and concluded that the fossil shared the most similarities with recent humans but only a few with Neandertals. ![]() The laughable amount of bone makes it rather impossible to say whether the fossil represents a Neandertal or more modern-looking human. The jaw fragment with highly worn teeth was found just above some Aurignacian-like (Upper Paleolithic) blades in 1927. The media have been reporting these studies as revealing “the first Europeans,” but of course we all know that the first Europeans were the badass hominids, my favorites, from the 1.8 million year old site of Dmanisi.įrom Kent’s Cavern (United Kingdom) is a partial maxilla, now dated to 44 – 41 kya * (Higham et al. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two reports came out last week in the journal Nature, re-dating some European human fossils to before 40 thousand years ago (kya), a few thousand years older than previous evidence for modern-looking people in the region.
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