This could be unironically huge. >be a bunch of Spanish archeologists >searching through an archeological site in Spain called Sima del Elefante >find part of a fossilized face >it's over 1 million years old >it's a hominid >IT'S ANATOMICALLY MODERN This could mean Anatomically Modern Humans aka Cro-Magnons aka Homo Sapiens were in Europe a long time before the Out of Africa timeline even began. It would absolutely btfo Out of Africa completely and btfo our understand of human prehistory and migration. Here's the article:
>The discovery of a 1.4-million-year-old human ancestor in Spain was in itself a history changing moment. But to discover it looked like us, “forces us to rewrite the books on human evolution,” claims a team of Spanish archaeologists. It is being heralded as the earliest European face found. >The location was hidden deep in the Atapuerca Mountain range near the village of Atapuerca, in the province of Burgos in northern Spain. Archaeologists excavating in the Sima del Elefante caves uncovered the fossilized face of an ancient hominid. Now, it has been determined that this ancient human lived between 1.2 and 1.4 million years ago and that it represents “the oldest human” ever discovered in Europe, reports the Atapuerca Foundation . >Until recently anthropologists generally maintained that Cro-Magnon were the first anatomically modern humans who migrated to Europe around 50,000 years ago. But the discovery of this human skull, and others, dating to between 1.2 and 1.4 million years ago, has released a gang of proverbial cats right amongst the archaeological pigeons ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/european-face-0016992
>The fossil was originally discovered on June 30 at the Sima del Elefante archaeological site by Édgar Téllez, a doctoral student. Rosa Huguet is a site coordinator and she told El Pais that the day after the jaw was discovered she declared they were “unequivocally human.” Furthermore, the fossil that dates back 1.4 million years has a particular feature on the chin that suggests these first Europeans had faces similar to our own. In contrast, at this time in Africa , Homo ergaster or Homo habilis had distinctly ape-like faces. >The feature discovered on the 1.4-million-year-old jaw was a slight vertical projection, which we all share today. This detail was also found on another ancient mandible excavated in 2007 that dated to 1.2 million years ago. But because the older 1.4-million-year-old jaw was buried more than a meter below the later example, scientists can conclude that the modern human face shape was “already present at this time (1.4-million-years-ago)”. >This singular discovery has effectively opened up a new history book with blank pages that will soon be filled with answers to big questions such as ‘who were the earliest European humans’ and ‘how are they related to later descendant groups?’ >Professor Carbonell added that the presence of the vertical chin on the 1.4-million-year-old jaw suggests there “may have been earlier hominins.” However, the owner of the jawbone represents one of the very first early members of “larger, more permanent populations”. In conclusion, these remains “push back the human presence in Europe.” Furthermore, they suggest the emergence of the modern face is much more ancient than previously believed.
Why does it look just like the average modern europoid?
Luis Parker
>be a bunch of Spanish archeologists >searching through an archeological site in Spain called Sima del Elefante >find part of a fossilized face >it's over 1 million years old >it's a hominid >IT'S ANATOMICALLY MODERN It comes before the article ffs Not the point. What we know as "white" could've been in Europe over a million years ago, implying we've always been our own species which then spread and mixed with Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Denisovans, etc.
Asher James
Cro-Magnon = Homo sapien = Anatomically Modern Humans = Modern Europeans Blacks = Homo erectus + Homo sapien Asian = Denisovan + Homo sapien Others = Neanderthal + Homo sapien
Daniel Ortiz
>IT'S ANATOMICALLY MODERN I've been stating on Any Forums for a while that Europeans are much older than anyone else, and that "Cro-Magnon" dates back by at least 500,000 years.
I have other information but no one else seems to copy/pasta it. I guess this place is largely filled with retards now.
Thomas Collins
Or the multiregional hypothesis is the correct one.
That's part of it, but there's essentially two general paths of 'evolution' and only one of them can be considered human.
Eli Turner
>"Cro-Magnon" dates back by at least 500,000 years Well if this is true, then they date back more than 1.4 million years lol. Which is insane. That's what I said though. That implies Homo Erectus spread around the world and mated into modern Africans, modern Europeans, and modern Asians; but this discovery could imply modern europeans spread around the world and mated into modern Africans and modern Asians.
Aaron James
I'm currently reading Forbudden Archeology: Hidden History of the Human Race and its quite compelling. There could have been humans anywhere from 5 to 25 million years ago.
Adam Morales
out of africa never made much sense to me, I remember reading a few years ago about there being evidence of native americans eating grain 100k years ago when any hominids living here 100k years ago would have supposedly been wiped out by the Clovis culture
Levi Morgan
>That's what I said though. No, you said that non-Europeans are also Sapiens. They are not because we don't share ancestry with them.
Dominic Hernandez
>That implies Homo Erectus spread around the world and mated into modern Africans, modern Europeans, and modern Asians; but this discovery could imply modern europeans spread around the world and mated into modern Africans and modern Asians. You're jumping the gun, neither of which is correct.
Ayden Williams
Currently, the official narrative is the first human in the Americas were Asians who came across the Bering Strait 13,000 years ago; yet there were people in Chile almost 20,000 years ago and Europeans in the North East over 20,000 years ago. There a pdf? But wouldn't this suggest instead of homo erectus mixing with homo sapien to create modern africans, it was the other way around?
How do we know they are 1.4 million year old fossils? Because they were found in 1.4 million year old rocks. How do we know they are 1.4 million year old rocks? Because we found 1.4 million year old fossils in them ...
Jack Perry
This may debunk Out of Africa to people paying attention but it will still be the mainstream narrative that is spun to the public. Modern human fossils were found in Mesopotamia that pre-date those the Out of Africa are based on. This was a few years ago but the consensus was “actually we must have just left Africa earlier than we thought” and they still shill the theory today. It doesn’t matter what the evidence says because the narrative must go on.
Jordan Roberts
Sapien is just a catch all term for modern populations, and it originally applied to Europeans only.
The out of Africa theory suggests that the first humans were basically the same as present day sub-Saharan Africans and that all the other races evolved from them.
Given this research: Pre-human hominids started spreading across the globe and evolving into different sub-species much earlier that any sub-Saharan origins. The first real modern humans lived somewhere around south-eastern Europe (Greece, southern Italy, western Anatolia). Some of them migrated further north into mainland Europe where they interacted with Neanderthals and eventually developed lighter features. Meanwhile, others 'possibly' migrated south into Africa and developed in a separate direction with some of the other hominids living there. Some of them split off and started travelling around the coast line of the Indian ocean and eventually into Asia, Oceania, and eventually the Americas. Along the way they split into different groups and continued to partially mix with random hominids they crossed paths with and evolved distinct features. And while they contributed variants to each population, they were ultimately assimilated by what has become the non-European populations on Earth.
Back to Africa: The early humans who theoretically went into sub-Saharan Africa, instead of travelling east, were not only assimilated by those African populations like they were Asian populations, but those now proto-human Africans proceeded to mix with remnants of even more primitive hominid species, which amounts to what is now sub-Saharan "black" Africans.
Whether they went into Africa or not, Europeans, rather than sub-Saharans or Asians, are the closest, and most consistently, related to the "original humans".
Brayden Jackson
It's the same with the Solutrean Hypothesis. The narrative MUST be Europeans did NOT discover the Americans because poor Asians who became native americans were the victims of le evil white man.
Ape-like pelvis suggests human ancestors might not have been built like modern African apes.
New pelvis discovered shows that human bi-pedalism has deeper ancestral origins than previously thought. Europeans are the only population to evolve from it.
Logically, this research indicates that all pre-historical non-European hominids were not bi-pedal like the pre-historical European hominids, and they only acquired bi-pedalism from the hominid predecessors of Europeans who broke away from the main groups in Europe.
