Scientists believe that they are close to ancient mystery covering the strange hominin skull, nor the Neanderthal, nor the man found in the cave wall – with a stalagmite pushed from above to complete the scary scene – in Macedonia, Greece.
In a new study published Human evolution magazineResearchers at the French Institute de Paléontologie (or the English Institute of Paleontology) claim that they were able to get age. “Petralona’s skull, named after the cave system, where a mysterious, almost shocked skull was discovered, as seen below, was discovered about 65 years ago.
A partial skull covered with brown orange calcite, partial stalgmite, hiding from its top, sitting at a similar shade of cave walls in Petralona caves in Macedonia, Greece. Image via Nandina/Wikimedia Commons.
As Archeology magazine Explains that this strange, non -human noggin has been fascinated and frustrated with scientists since it was found in 1960, Sans The lower jaw and recorded in the mineral calcite, which lives in the nearby Theesalonic port city.
For decades, researchers have fiercely discussed the age of the skull, hoping to determine what Homo The tribe from which it came from because, as shown below, it does not resemble any other known hominin skull.
The black and white side of the left side of the skull, known as
Over the years, researchers, stating that the skull was between 170,000 and 700,000 years, according to various dating methods, scientists had to rely on the best era technologies and hypotheses, trying to find out when the skull came from – and what, more importantly, what or what being.
In this new study, the team of the Institute of Paleontology, headed by an archaeologist, Christophe Falguoughs, Used an extremely simple technique to offer a more concise Petralona skull period. Using calcite samples directly from the skull itself and surrounding the deposits, researchers used a technique called the Uranus series, which measures the speed of the uranium isotopes because they become toria over time.
In a typical outdoor environment, as Archeology Mag Explains that Uranus is abundant, so dating techniques are the beginning of most materials. However, the caves are different: as a closed system, before steaming how the closed system moves through the stones, leaving behind Uranus rich calcite deposits, which can eventually be matured with this very accurate radiometric date of date.
Using this methodology, Falgumires and his team found that the calcite deposits in the skull began to form at least 286,000 years ago and the bugs were about 9,000 years old. Eventually, French paleontologists found that it could be as much as 277,000 years and as an old 539,000, putting it in the middle patchocene era, which occurred 773,000 to 126,000 years ago 773,000-126,000 years ago.
Interview with Live science Paper writer Chris Stringer from the Museum of Natural History in London said the Petralona Skull New Age range shows “the perseverance and coexistence of this population along with the developing Neanderthal line in the later middle European patch.”
Although this would certainly not be the first time we have seen the evidence of modern people and other hominins, including Neanderthals, existing (and mutual), these new Petralona skulls have offered a more detailed calculation of our prehistoric past.
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