A mysterious skull with a stalgmite coming out of his head is about 300 300,000 years old nor human nor nor NendathalFound a new study.
The skull was reportedly discovered in 1960 in northern Greece to the wall of the Patlona Cave. Researchers have discussed its position since then. Human family tree And had difficulty detecting her age – so far.
In a new research, appeared online on August 14 Journal of Human evolutionResearchers, a calcium carbonate, which is often found in caves) exits the skull to find out that it is at least 277,000 years old. They do not know exactly how long the scalp was before the pursuit of the calcite, but the new estimate helps reduce the previous efforts of the scalp history, which is from 170,000 to 700,000 years of age.
These results support the previous suggestions that Patlona’s person lived pleistoceneEurope was part of Europe, but a different human group, as well as a different human group. Homo Headburns.
Patlona is separate from the Jovashim H. SAPIENS And nendrertles, co -author of the study Chris String“And New Age’s estimate supports the continent and coexistence of the population, along with a developing nendartel lineage in the post -European Playson, as well as the population,” said a specialist at the Natural History Museum in London, London’s Natural History Museum.
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According to String, Patlona Skull, sometimes called “Patlona Main”, was almost certainly male based on the size and solid of the gems. He also said that the skull had a moderate clothing, so he belonged to a young adult.
Although the scalp discovery records are flawed, String noted that there is evidence to support the idea that it was trapped by the wall through calcite encroachments – the same nature that was coming out of the skull.
To assess the age of the Calceite, researchers used a method of name Uranium series dating. Calcite occurs in small quantities UraniumWhich decides in another radioactive element called Thorim during a stipulated period. This fixed rate of mucus means that researchers can calculate ages based on the proportion of the thorium of the uranium of the calf. The skull is about 2866,000 years ago, with high degree confident that it is at least 277,000 years old.
Dating Research also suggested that the calm cave increases rapidly. String noted that it did not take long for the skull to get its first layer of calcite, which would mean that the skull was about 300,000 years old. However, the skull can be more than 300,000 years of age if it takes longer to form a calcite.
The 300,000 -year -old estimates from Zambia, Africa, fits with a stringer and colleagues’ analysis about a similar gossip, known as the Kabu Khalidi. Their 2019 study History Puppies Skull, which is often assigned H. Headburn299,000 years old.
“This is closely comparison to Patlona One, and I will classify both of them Homo Headburns“String said.
