John Hawks just pointed out a press release announcing a new hominid from Serbia. The site is a cave in the Sicevo Gorge
. The site is dated to the Middle Pleistocene, or around 130,000 to 250,000 years old. The press release doesn’t provide a definitive dating technique, just saying that the,
“The [remains were] found at a depth of four meters, below a Neanderthal village.”
The specimen is a mandibular fragment with three complete teeth. Dusan Mihailovic, the leader of the excavations at Sicevo Gorge thinks the jaw is of a Homo erectus, but again the press release doesn’t provide any information of a thorough comparative analysis…
Here’s a photo of Dusan Mihailovic holding the mandible:
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June 30, 2008 at 10:36 pm
[...] Jump to Comments John Hawks shares with us news of a new hominids discovery. Similar to the post from a couple days ago, this is news of mandible of Homo erectus. Unlike the Serbian mandibular fragment, this is a [...]