The discovery of artifacts over 45,000 years old raises questions about human ancestry

Neanderthal. Photo: EFE

Speaking of Neanderthals who lived Europe 300,000 years ago, tens of thousands of years ago, there is reference to the last species of hominids that inhabited the Old Continent. A wise manAt that time it inhabited a large area Africa.

in the middle 1932 Y 1938 Ilsenhörne cave was discovered, which was the shelter of a large number of animals long ago. 47,000 years. The discovery was a great resource for study, as leaf-shaped tools were found that were associated with the last Neanderthals, one of the ancestors of humans.

New scientific research published magazine Naturecan be achieved Change the perspective of these objects.

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Research progress

International team of scientists Returned to the site in 2016For ongoing analysis of collected information 30s and identify the origin of objects.

Scientists have discovered in a German cave. Animal bones After taking refuge there and then migrating out of Africa, it ended up being the food of humans who went to the freezing temperatures of northern Europe.

On the other hand, stone tools may have been used by a new stream of immigrant species for hunting and later modified by the native Neanderthals.

Artifacts found in Ilsenhörne Cave. Photo: Ctalá Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution

This led experts to think that “apparently, the tools have nothing to do with Neanderthals, but rather a period when modern humans modified them,” explained the leader of the research. Jean Jacques Hublin.

For current researchers, Carved leaves are an invention of sapiensIts appearance was replaced by the last great human wave, which was less 40,000 years.

This wave is believed to have been destroyed Genetic fingerprinting of sapiens Adapted to the cold of northern Europe and used new tools useful to Neanderthals 800 centuries earlier.