Israel’s scientists encountered an unexpected discovery while studying pieces of fossilized bone, digging near a cement plant. The fragments of a skull and the lower jaw with teeth belonged to a person who lived in the area about 130,000 years ago, but the human is different from what we have known until now.
The researchers gave him a new name, since we are looking at a different species of humans who have never seen before. They are calling it Nesher Ramla Homo, after a location southeast of Tel Aviv, where it was discovered. This human had individual characteristics invisible in other skeletal findings of the same period. The researchers found that Nesher Ramla Homo had a flat skull, very large teeth and a bone of the jaw without chin. The species may have lived together with Homo Sapiens for more than 100,000 years, and it is believed to be the Neanderthal precursor, whose skull looks up. The discovery can hide everything we knew about human evolution on Earth.
“The discovery of a new type of homo is of great scientific importance,” said Israel Hershkovitz at the University of Tel Aviv in a statement. “It allows us to make a new sense of human fossils previously found, add another piece to the puzzle of human evolution and understand the migrations of humans in the old world.”
Nesher Ramla could have had an unusual anatomy of skull, but the study says that they resembled pre-Neandertal groups in Europe.
“This is what makes us suggest that this group Nesher Ramla is actually a large group that began very early in time and is the source of the European Neanderthal,” said Physical Anthropologist at Tel Aviv University, Hila told himself in a statement. He added that science has never been able to explain how Homo Sapien genes were presented in the previous Neanderthal population in Europe. The Nesher Ramla can be the missing link, since the species may have been interested with Homo Sapiens.
The 3D form analysis of the Nesher Ramla bones ruled out the relationship with any known group, but the researchers coincided with a small number of human fossils in Israel that scientists had never explained. Scientists speculate that Israel’s geographical location would have allowed different human populations to meet and mix while they were spreading all over the world.
The bones Nesher Ramla Homo found about 25 feet deep, next to the stone stools, the bones of the horses and the bones of deer.