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Bronze Age spear found by a metal detectorist on a Jersey beach
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Ancient teeth that were discovered in La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey appeared to have belonged to a Neanderthal/
Homo sapien hybrid. While the 13 teeth were unearthed over a century ago in 1910 and 1911, they were only recently analyzed in detail.
The teeth (all thought to have belonged to one individual) were initially thought to have belonged to a Neanderthal. The teeth were initially put on display at the Jersey Museum and Art Gallery but were transported to the National History Museum so experts could perform further studies on them.
The new studies were conducted by seven different institutions – including the National History Museum, UCL Institute of Archaeology, and the University of Kent – and they found something very interesting. The teeth actually belonged to two different individuals who had distinct characteristics of both Neanderthals and modern humans.
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The lead author of the new paper, physical anthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum , explained to
BBC Science that the results from the new analysis of the La Cotte individuals teeth suggest they “could have had a dual Neanderthal–modern human ancestry.” Jersey Heritage curator, Olga Finch, said the La Cotte de St Brelade site is “of huge importance and it continues to reveal stories about our ancient predecessors.” In a
Daily Mail article, archaeologist and dig leader Matt Pope, of the University College London , explains that “this work offers us a glimpse of a new and intriguing population of Neanderthal people and opens the door to a new phase of discovery at the site.”