Posted on 11/29/2007 9:46:04 AM PST by blam
Bulgarian Paleontologists Stumble upon Prehistoric Tooth
28 November 2007, Wednesday
A team of scientists with Bulgaria's Natural History Museum have unearthed a tooth dated back to the Late Miocene, the head of the fossil and recent Mammalia museum department Dr. Nikolay Spasov announced on Wednesday.
The tooth is some seven million years old and belonged to a hominid.
A team of archaeologists, paleontologists, paleo-anthropologists and biologists from the museum spent the last ten years in researching the flora, the fauna and the overall nature setting in Bulgaria from the time of the late Neogene (10,7 - 5,3 million years BC).
The tooth was dated by Dr. Nikolai Spasov and Dr. Denis Geraads from the Paris laboratory on human origins, who work on a joint project, financed by CNRS-France.
The tooth was discovered by paleontologists P. Popdimitrov and A. Dimitrova. The finding comes from the continental Neocene deposits in the basin of the Maritsa River.
The attendant fossil fauna - antelopes, proboscises, hiparions, rhinos and other animals - helped in fixing a late Turolean age for the tooth. The finding itself belonged to the latest hominid in Europe, which from its part gives another strong argument for the thesis that direct predecessors of the hominids originated in southeastern Europe and not in Africa.
Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site.
Re: What is the difference between hominin and hominid when classify humans?
Oy.
“Bulgarian Paleontologists Stumble Upon Prehistoric Tooth”
Maybe they should have better lighting in the fields so they can see where they’re going.
They found it “al dente”...............
I can’t top that.
Thanks. I’d been wondering about that.
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just a nice pic from the Maritsa River, from my duplicate topic.
OK if they say so.
Wonder how long it will take them to decide they have the time frame wrong or possibly their conclusions.
If they would watch where they are going, this sort of thing wouldn't happen.
Those French types will sleep with anything
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