Two young archaeologists made a sensational discovery in the excavation site of Tautavel (Pyrénées-Orientales), not far from Perpignan. They found an old tooth … 560 000 years. “It’s exciting, it’s fascinating. They ask lots of questions, one wonders how he lost that tooth” Camille says Jacquey. “It” is being (man or woman) who had this tooth. He was baptized Arago 149 and it now has the oldest human ever found in France title. Where is he in History?
Pascal Picq, paleo-anthropologist, was his idea. “We are not yet at the time it was real Neanderthals. We are not yet at the time was the true Homo Sapiens-(…). We are on this common core which will give the prehistoric men, “ he entrusts France 3.
For over 50 years we dig in Tautavel, unique in Europe, which has already delivered 600,000 objects. Researchers hope to discover other elements Arago 149.
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