The earliest human face of fossil from Western Europe, nickname “Pink”, discovered in the Spanish Jam

Researchers in Spain amounted to a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the Tree of the Human Family Tree, and they say that the earliest unknown remains of persons discovered in Western Europe.

The bones of an adult face were found at the Acatal Site of Atapuerch in Northern Spain 2022. years. Since then, a team of scientists are working to know more about Hominin, which they were outlined. Researchers shared their findings in the journal study Naturewhich was published on Tuesday.

The remains of the remains are dated between 1.1 and 1.4 million years, researchers said.

The research “introduces a new actor in the history of human evolution in Europe”, the studio author of Rosa Huguet, Spanish University of Rovira and Virgila, said on the news, the newspaper news agency.

The discovery suggests that early people were settled in Europe, traveling from the east side of the continent in the west, about 1.4 million years ago, researchers said. So far, the oldest known human species in Western Europe has been Homo Nontecesser. Experts found Homo Nontecesser Remains who are about 850,000 years old.

The oldest human ancestor found in any area of ​​Europe is Dmanisi, or Homo GeorgicusA group that lived in what is now the Nation Georgia. The remains of that kind were dated 1.8 million years ago. They are the first members of the human family known to travel from Africa to Europe.

The face of “pink”

Fossilized Upper Jambonsian and partial cheekbone was excavated from a deep layer of 52 feet and mud in Sima del Elefante or “Elephant Jam”, a locality less than 1,000 feet from place Homo anticensor They were discovered in 1994. years. Bones were not sufficient for researchers to determine age or gender.

From those fossilized bones, researchers could use 3D image techniques to create a pink model. The face is more “predicted forward and more robust” than a modern human face or a Homo Nontecesser The face, Maria Martinon-Torres, director of the Spanish National Research Center for Human Evolution, told AFP.

Pink’s face carries some similarities to the human throat Homo erectus, Researchers said. That the species asked for almost 2 million years and Did the first human species evolve More modified proportions of the human body and use fire and tools. The remains of species were found in Africa, Asia and Europe.

But the similarities were not strong enough for scientists to confirm that Pink was a member of that kind. Instead, they suggested that pink could belong to a new possible species, which they called Homo ‘affinis’ erectus.

“This is the most preserved suggestion that we can do with the evidence we have,” Martinon-Torres said, according to AFP.

Scientists could also analyze small stone tools and animal bones found at the point of excavation to learn more about how pink lived. The environment was a humid forest landscape at the time, and the early human population lived with horses, ancient cattle, monkeys and hippos, researchers said. The area probably had a lot of water, which would do the “ideal” point for meaning, said Huguet at the press conference.

Researchers suggested that species may be the bridge between Homo Georgicus Types and Homo Nontecesser Type. Study Co-author Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro said that the AFP was likely that the species were “probably missing” during a severe global cooling era that happened almost 900,000 years ago.

Research on the excavation site will continue, scientists said.

AFP

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