"Out of Africa" challenged- Archaeologists Have Found Oldest Human Remains in Israel

Ancient Teeth in Israel May Point to Oldest Ancestors

Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The discovery of eight ancient teeth in a cave east of Tel-Aviv that was used thousands of years ago may point to the oldest human ancestors, a study found.

The teeth are older than most of the hominin specimens previously found in southwest Asia, according to researchers from Tel Aviv University who used advanced imaging technology, comparative analysis and an examination of the earth and debris around the fossils to date them to 300,000 to 400,000 years ago.

While the features aren’t a direct match to Neanderthals or early modern humans, they have a “stronger affinity” to Homo sapiens, the investigators said in a report in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. One possibility is the teeth belong to an ancient, direct ancestor of early humans that developed independently of others in Africa and Europe, said Rolf M. Quam, a professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Binghamton.

“This region of the world has been a crossroads for human population movements for a very long period of time and is situated just outside of Africa and just outside of Europe,” Quam, one of the study’s researchers, said in an e-mail.

Alternately, the finding may reflect a local evolution of Neanderthals in southwest Asia, showing they were there earlier than previously believed, or that more than one species -- one earlier in time, and one later -- occupied that area, Quam said.

Many Theories

“There are a lot of possibilities,” Avi Gopher, a professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University who co-directed the excavations where the teeth were discovered, said today in a telephone interview. While one alternative would be to modify the theory that Homo sapiens developed first in Africa and then migrated throughout the world, Gopher said, “We must be cautious; you don’t throw out a paradigm just because of a few teeth.”

The study was funded by the government of Spain, the American Museum of Natural History, the Israel Science Foundation and philanthropic groups including the Irene Levi Sala CARE Archaeological Foundation and the Leakey Foundation.

An international team of scientists carried out the research, led by Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University. The study was based on excavations of the site under the direction of Gopher and Ran Barkai, also of Tel Aviv University.

“It is possible the older teeth represent one species and the younger teeth represent a different species, since we know that different human species were occupying Africa and Europe at this time,” Quam said. “With such fragmentary evidence as eight isolated teeth, it is difficult to offer a clear answer.”

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They must belong to a Jew.

 

Well, they do now in any case...

 

"Science" is such shit for the most part, the important parts especially... we did the Human Genome Project, remember, the one started by the Public Sector that the Private Sector wrapped up in a fraction of the time? Up until that time we were told that no genetic memories of any kind were passed generation to generation... then... the story changed a little, there was a lot of "junk DNA".. then finally it was allowed to be spoken: genetic info is passed from generation to generation!! But wait, they also compared the African genome with the European genome and found that there was nowhere near enough difference to support the story that "humans started in Africa but fifty thousand years later the new and improved model appeared in Europe"... but the theory is still circulating oh.. in our schools and on TV and things like that... now they found a few goddam teeth, who gives a fuck what they found or how they interpret it? They found a whole Tyrannosaurus Skeleton once that was NOT FOSSILIZED!! They claimed that the fricking bones were preserved for 50 million years or some shit like that!!!!!!!!!!!