Washington – Partial face fossil from a Human grandfather It is the oldest in Western Europe, according to archaeologists on Wednesday.
The incomplete skull – a section of the left cheek and the upper jaw – was found in northern Spain in 2022. The age of Al -Ahfar ranges between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years, according to the research. It was published in the Journal of Nature.
“The fossil is exciting. It is the first time that we have great remains of more than a million years old in Western Europe,” said Eric Delson, the world of excavation at the American Museum of Natural History, who did not participate in the study.
A group of older excavations from the ancestors of the first person was It was previously found in GeorgiaNear the Eastern European and Asia crossroads. You are estimated at 1.8 million years old.
Rick Pots, director of the Smithsonian program for man, said that the Spanish fossil is the first evidence that clearly showing their ancestors “they were doing trips to Europe” at the time.
He said there is no evidence that the closest expatriates have continued for a long time. “They may reach a new site and then die,” said Pots, who had no role in the study.
This partial skull, Rosa Huguweth, said that this partial skull carries many similarities with homo erection, but there are also some anatomical differences.
Pots said that Homo Erectus grew up about two million years ago and moved from Africa to regions of Asia and Europe, where the last individuals die about 100,000 years ago.
Christophe Zolicofer, the university scientist at Zurich University, said it is difficult to determine which group of the first people discovered by fossils if there is only one part against many bones that show a group of features.
The same cave complex in the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain, where new fossils were also found that have also resulted in other important evidence of the old human past. The researchers working in the region also found more modern fossils than primitive and early Sapiens.
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