A group of researchers, in cooperation with scientists from the Tel Aviv University of Israel, succeeded in finding important remains of the ancient Homo Sapiens in a cave in Israel.
image source: vesti.ru/Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University.
"During the recent excavations at the cave of Meselia in Israel, the researchers were able to find part of the left upper jaw bone with a number of teeth belonging to the ancient Homo Sapiens," the Russian Vesti-Ro website confirmed.
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The importance of this discovery is that the age of these bones and teeth is estimated at 177-194 thousand years, much older than the remnants found previously for this type of organisms in that region.
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According to the information, "the excavations in the cave also led to the discovery of certain layers of carbon indicating that the inhabitants of the ancient cave were using fire and stone tools characteristic, dating back to the same time period of bones found.