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Africa may not be the birthplace of modern man after all.
Israeli archaeologists digging in caves east of Tel Aviv have discovered
eight human teeth dating from 400,000 years ago, which may be the earliest
traces of the human species.
"The teeth are scattered through the layers of the cave, some in the deeper
part, that is to say from 400,000 years and through all kinds of other
layers that can be up to 200,000 years," Avi Gopher, of Tel Aviv University'
s Institute of Archaeology, told the AFP.
"It is accepted at the moment that the earliest Homo sapiens that we know is
in east Africa and is 200,000 years old, or a little less. We don't know of
anywhere else where anyone claims to have an earlier Homo sapiens," he said.
Gopher said his team first discovered teeth in 2006 but waited to publish
their findings until they had collected several samples and completed years
of testing. |
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