An ancient jawbone previously thought to belong to a Neanderthal may force a rethinking of modern human history in Europe.
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1.4 million-year-old jawbone discover in Spain, that may be Europe’s earliest known human relative
The fossil was discovered in June in Sima del Elefante (Pit of the Elephant in Spanish), an archeological site in the Atapuerca Mountains close to Burgos in northern Spain that is renowned for its extensive fossil collection.
An ancient tooth of a mysterious Denisovan girl may have been discovered
The discovery of an ancient molar — a tooth that likely belonged to young girl who lived up to 164,000 years ago in a cave in what is now Laos — is new evidence that the mysterious human lineage dubbed the Denisovans, previously known only from caves in Siberia and China, also lived in Southeast Asia, a new study finds.