Archaeologists from the Max Planck Institute and international partners re-examined the fossil record from Shuqba Cave which is 28km northwest of Jerusalem including a child s tooth.
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A solitary tooth discovered in a Palestinian West Bank cave may help revolutionise our understanding of evolution, as it provides a missing link between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens tech. The newly-analysed molar belonging to a Neanderthal child marks the hominin s southernmost known range.
Neanderthals hadn't been thought capable of fashioning clever 'Nubian Levallois' tools. Now a tooth found with such tools in a West Bank cave has been identified as Neanderthal