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Scientists have dated the skeleton of the old child, which carries advantages of primitive humans and human beings, to between 27700 and 28,600 years.
The almost complete skeleton of the “Lapedo Child” was discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in the center of Portugal. It was stained in red, and scientists believe that it may be wrapped in the skin of an animal coated before burial.
At that time, scientists noted that some of the characteristics of the human child – including the dimensions of the body and the jaw bones – looked Neanderthal and suggested that the child was descending from the population in which human beings and the primitive human beings were married.
Although it was a radical idea at that time, progress in genetics has since demonstrated the presence of these population – and today people still carry primitive DNA.
But trying to know when the child lived exactly was difficult.
Small roots have grown through bones and pollution – from plants or other sources – made it impossible for scientists to use traditional carbon dating to measure the child’s age. Instead, their history dates back to the bones of coal and animal around the skeleton to between 27700 and 29,700 years.
Technologies improved, and the researchers informed on Friday in the Journal of Science that they were able to determine the date of the skeleton by measuring part of the protein found primarily in human bones.
Upon examining part of a broken arm, they revealed that the previous estimate was on the field: the skeleton was between 27700 and 28600 years.
“To be able to successfully determine the dates of the child, bring them back to a small piece of their story, which is a great privilege,” said Bethannskot, a study author now at Miami University, in an email.
She noted that the initial discovery was more than just a skeleton – it was also the grave of a small child. Upon dating bones, you could only ask who loved the child, and what made them laugh and what their world seemed in the four short years that followed the planet.
The study is an example of how dating methods become more effective and help scientists better understand the past.
The author of the study, Joao Zellhao of the University of Lisbon, said that the study of where humans came from an important matter for the same reason that we keep in the images of our fathers and grandparents. “
He said, “It is a way to remember.”