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Miniature diagram of pioneer skull fossils

According to the detection, the fossil age is about 165438+ million-65438+200,000 years ago. The gender of the owner of the jaw and teeth can't be finally determined, but she is likely to be female. She was about 30-40 when she died. She may be the "first European" in the world and is temporarily classified as a "pioneer". The so-called "pioneers" lived 300,000 to 400,000 years before the earliest known homo sapiens, who is now considered to be the first human to reach Europe. The study was led by Erdahl Galbonier of the University of Villa in Spain. He said: the discovery of the "pioneer" fossil opened a new chapter in European colonial history. Scientists used to think that the earliest residents in Europe immigrated from Africa or Asia, but this discovery shows that human life existed here before these immigrants arrived in Europe.

Although these "pioneers" may be the earliest inhabitants of Europe, they may not be the ancestors of modern humans. Scientists generally believe that human beings evolved from African Homo sapiens 200,000-10.5 million years ago. Homo sapiens left Africa about 60 thousand years ago and began to emigrate, replacing other human species around the world to survive. In addition to the fossils of mandible and teeth, scientists also found many primitive stone tools and animal bones with cutting marks in caves. These marks show that these animals were slaughtered by ancient people. They use stone tools to pick and cut meat and break the bones of animals, including rhinoceros, deer, bison, wolves and bears. Some experts said that the study of the "earliest Europeans" fossils excavated in Spain confirmed that these prehistoric humans were cannibals, and they especially liked to eat children's meat. By studying the fossils of pioneers who came to Europe for the first time, we found that they were cannibals. These prehistoric humans are cannibals, and they especially like to eat children's meat.

These "pioneers" may have migrated for a long time, passed through the Middle East, northern Italy and France, and settled in this cave in Atapueka, because it is very suitable for human habitation: the two rivers meet, the climate is pleasant, and the animals and plants are rich, so it is easy to catch prey. This means that they don't eat people because of lack of food. They killed the "enemy" and ate their flesh. Moreover, two fossil layers containing the remains of cannibals were found in the cave, which means that cannibalism is not a one-off behavior, but a continuous one. Another important discovery is that most of the' victims' of 1 1 have been identified as children or teenagers, and two young adults, including a woman, have been found, which shows that they have killed the' roots' of other ethnic groups-the younger generation. Pioneer evolution map

Archaeologists classify these two fossils with huge age differences as the same link in the human evolution chain: "pioneers"-the common ancestor of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, Neanderthals mainly distributed in the Middle East and Europe, living 200,000 to 30,000 years ago; Homo sapiens traveled all over the world, living between 200,000 and 654.38 million years ago.

Homo habilis evolved into Homo erectus, and Homo erectus evolved into Homo sapiens, the ancestor of modern people. According to the chronology, the newly discovered fossils in Atapour belong to Homo erectus. This shows that human beings set foot on the European continent earlier than we thought.

The discovery of new fossils provides strong evidence for the theory that ancient humans partially walked out of Africa, came to the Caucasus and then entered different parts of Europe 2 million years ago. It was previously known that the earliest hominid fossils outside Africa appeared in Georgia, about 654.38+0.7 million years ago.