Human jawbone fossil found on June 30 in Spain’s Arapuerca Mountains, so far The oldest human fossil ever found on the European continent it happened.
Jose-Maria Bermudez de Castro, one of the leaders of the team conducting the investigation, about the new jawbone they found. “dating” work continues stated. Many methods, especially carbon testing, are used during the dating studies to confirm the age of the fossils found.
The final results are announced after 6 to 8 months and if confirmed by scientific methods, the discovery becomes historic:
The jawbone of a person who lived 1.4 million years ago @Atapuerca Foundation
Due to the nature of scientific research, every piece of information is tested with various tests before being accepted with certainty. If a 1.4-million-year-old fossil is indeed determined to be of this age, the researchers say it would be a historic discovery.
The lower jaw belongs to someone of the same species as us, not a Homo sapiense:
A wax figure representing the first Homo sapiens to land in present-day England. @National History Museum, London
As you know, we are a species called Homo (human) sapiens (intelligent), that is, “intelligent man”, and for tens of thousands of years no other human species has lived on Earth except us. The earliest evidence for our species is simply: Although it is 200 thousand years old The jawbone fossil found is 1.2 million years older than even the oldest evidence of ours.
It is thought that 21 different human species have been identified on Earth so far. While some studies suggest the number is 14, we do know that the jawbone in question does not belong to a Homo sapiens. The oldest European human fossil before the fossil claimed to be 1.4 million years old in 2007 It was discovered and dated to 1.2 million years ago, but to which human species this fossil belongs has still not been established.
The discovery was made in Spain. AtapuercaIt has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000 and is said to have thousands of prehistoric fossils just waiting to be discovered.