The bones belonging to a “new type of early human” previously unknown of science were found in Israel, said Thursday, claiming to have raised a new light on human evolution.
Excavations in the career of a cement plant near the Central City of Ramla have discovered prehistoric remains that could not be accompanied by any known kind of homo.
The researchers at the University of Tel Aviv and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem nicknamed the “extraordinary discovery” the “type of nature Ramla Homo” after the site, in a study published in the journal science.
Fossils dates from 140,000 and 120,000 years, and the team believes that the NHER Ramla type would have ridden with Homo Sapiens, the line of modern humans.
“We had never imagined that the sides of Homo Sapiens, Archaic Homo traveled the region so late in the history of man,” said the main archaeologist Yossi Zaidner.
“The morphology of Nasher Ramla’s humans shares characteristics with Neanderthales … and Archaic Homo,” the researchers said in a statement.
“At the same time, this type of homo is very unlike modern humans – displaying a completely different skull structure, no chin and very big teeth.”
In addition to the human vestiges, the search has discovered large amounts of animal bones as well as stone tools.
“The archaeological finds associated with human fossils show that” Nesher Ramla Homo “possessed advanced stone tool production technologies and most likely with local homo sapiens,” said Zaidner.
The researchers suggested that some fossils previously discovered in Israel dating up to 400,000 years could belong to the same type of prehistoric man.
The dentist and anthropologist Rachel Sarig from the University of Tel Aviv stated that the researchers previously tried to allocate older bones to known human groups such as Homo Sapiens or Neanderthals.
“But now we say: No. This is a group in itself, with distinct features and features,” she said.
“Missing population”
Israeli researchers always make the controversial claim that the discovery of a new archaic homo group in the Middle East of the challenges has accepted the ideas that Neanderthals come from Europe.
“Before these new conclusions, most researchers felt that the Neandertalers constituted a” European History “, in which small groups of Neanderthalhas were forced to migrate south to escape the widespread glaciers,” said Israel Hershkovitz. University of Tel Aviv,
“Our conclusions imply that the famous Neanderes of Western Europe are just the remains of a much larger population that lived here in the Levant – and not the opposite.”
Sarig stated that small groups of the Nasher Ramla type have probably emigrated to emigration to Europe, evolving later in Neandelas and Asia, developing in populations with similar characteristics.
Researchers say it could also explain how some homo sapiens genes have been discovered in the Neanderthal population that has probably been living in Europe for a long time before the Old Arrival.
Professor Chris Stringer, from the Natural History Museum in London, said Israeli discoveries were important, but interviewed the demand for researchers with a link with Neanderthals.
“I think it’s a jump too far for the moment to connect some of the oldest Israeli fossils to the Neanderthals,” Stringer said to the BBC.
Geneticians study the European Neanderthal DNA have already suggested the existence of a Neanderthal population, nicknamed the “missing population” or the “population X”, which would have interrupted with Homo Sapiens more than 200,000 years ago .
In the document, Israeli researchers suggest that the Nasher Ramla Homo type could be this missing link.
Sarig said that the find suggested that “as crossroads between Africa, Europe and Asia, the land of Israel served as melting pot where different human populations mingled with each other, to spread more late in everyone.
“The discovery of the Nsher Ramla site writes a new and fascinating chapter of the history of humanity,” she said.