Scientists from Israel stumbled upon an unexpected discovery while studying fossilized pieces of bone dug up near a cement plant. The fragments from a skull and lower jaw with teeth belonged to a person who lived in the area some 130,000 years ago, but the human is unlike anything we’ve known so far. The researchers
Published on: Saturday, June 26, 2021
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Bones and other items uncovered during the dig at a site in Nesher Ramla in central Israel are seen in this handout photo issued on June 24, 2021. (Pic: Hebrew University)
JERUSALEM: Bones belonging to a “new type of early human” previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution.
Excavations in the quarry of a cement plant near the central city of Ramla uncovered prehistoric remains that could not be matched to any known species from the Homo genus.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem dubbed the “extraordinary discovery” the “Nesher Ramla Homo type” after the site, in a study published in the journal Science.
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