54,000 -year -old milk tooth changes everything we know about ancestors

Homosapiens arrived in Europe much earlier than it was considered, according to an archaeological study. Archaeological discoveries have so far shown that Neanderthals have disappeared from the European continent 40,000 years ago, shortly after arriving on their « cousins » homo -sapiens only 5,000 years earlier, and there was no evidence of their meeting. Now, a new discovery by a team of archaeologists and paleoanthropologists led by Ludwig Slimak dates back to the arrival of homosapien in Western Europe approximately 54,000 years ago. Another extraordinary discovery of the study is that two types of people alternately lived in the Mandrin cave in southern France. The Mandrin site, first excavated in 1990, includes a layer of archaeological residues dating more than 80,000 years ago.
« Mandrin is like a kind of Neanderthalian Pompeii, without catastrophic events, but with the continuous filling of the sand cave carried by strong winds, » said Slimak.
The team discovered a layer, known as the layer, which contained at least 1,500 sliced ​​peaks made of flint, finer made of tops and blades.
« Very small in size, some of them shorter than one centimeter, these peaks are standardized, with accuracy of up to millimeter, something we haven’t seen with Neanderthals, » said Slimak, an expert on Neanderthal societies.
That, as he explained, was probably the tops of arrows unknown in Europe at the time. He attributed this production with several sites in the Rona area. In 2016, Slimak and his team visited Harvard’s Pibodi Museum to compare the findings with a collection of fossils from the Ksar Akil site, one of the main places of the Homosapiens’ expansion to the east. The similarity between the techniques used convinced Slimak that the findings of the Mandrin site were the first traces of homosapiens found in Europe. Milky tooth found in the layer has confirmed its suspicions. Scientists found nine teeth from six people on the site of Mandrin. Those ancient teeth were entrusted to paleontologist Clemente Zanoli. The layer of the layer of the layer was the only human tooth found in this place and is the earliest known proof of modern people in Western Europe.
« The findings of Mandrin are really exciting and another part of the puzzle of how people have arrived in Europe, » Professor Chris Stringer, co -author of the study and human evolution expert at the London Museum, concludes.