Jawdropping discovery: Remains of extinct human species that died thousands of years ago found in kitchen floor tiles
Daily MailA dentist caught a huge surprise when he visited his parents' house and spotted a familiar bit of anatomy embedded into the corridor of their newly renovated home. Reddit is rife with fake posts, but multiple experts confirmed to DailyMail.com that this really does appear to be a jawbone, and that it probably belonged to either a modern human or, more likely, an extinct hominin like Homo erectus or a Neanderthal. In fact, some architects seek out travertine stone for tiles because they tend to contain fossils - but these mostly tend to be leaves and insects, said Corthals, not hominins. The fossilized jawbone may have belonged to a member of the ancient human ancestor species Homo erectus, who lived between 1.9 million and 108 thousand years ago. And if it belonged to a member of Homo erectus, it could be between 1.9 million and 108 thousand years old.
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