The last supper of the hominids establishes the times they lived at the sites
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 10:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the French cave of Arago, an international team of scientists has analysed the dental wear of the fossils of herbivorous animals hunted by Homo heidelbergensis. It is the first time that an analytical method has allowed the establishment of the length of human occupations at archaeological sites. The key is the last food that these hominids consumed...
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