CANADA: A tooth dating from 560,000 years before our own time has been discovered in France, providing new insights into our distant ancestors. The remarkable find was unearthed by a pair of young archeology students.
Tautavel is a cave well known for housing some stunning archaeological finds. The students were exploring this area in southwestern France for artifacts when they came across the ancient tooth.
“We are pretty confident that the site has a lot more to reveal. Human remains from between 500,000 and 800,000 years ago are more than scarce in Europe nowadays, and this tooth fills a bit of the gap of the incompleteness in this 300,000-year period,” Christian Perrenoud, a geo-archaeologist who participated in the study of the artifact, said.
This tooth now represents the oldest human remains ever found in France. The remains could help answer several questions archaeologists have about this distant era. Many of the oldest human fossils are found in Germany and Spain, while this tooth provides information about more recent human inhabitants of the land that would one day become France.
A 16-year-old identified only as Camille first saw the tooth while she was working with another student at the site.
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