Half-Million-Year-Old Human Jawbone Found

in Anthropology/Paleontology / by / on February 7, 2013 at 15:14 /

Scientists have unearthed a jawbone from an ancient human ancestor in a cave in Serbia. The jawbone, which may have come from an ancient Homo erectus or a primitive-looking Neanderthal precursor, is more than 397,000 years old, and possibly more than 525,000 years old. The fossil, described today (Feb. 6) in the journal PLOS ONE, is the oldest hominin fossil found in this region of Europe, and may change the view that Neanderthals, our closest extinct human relatives, evolved throughout Europe around that time….GALLERY

Image credit: Mirjana Roksandic

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