French Amateur archaeologist discovered the tooth of a man who lived about 580 thousand years. The find is named the oldest in Europe, a fragment of human remains.

In the South of France, in the cave Con-d Arago, located near the city of Perpignan, a 16-year-old Amateur archaeologist has found the tooth of an ancient inhabitant of our planet, informs The Daily Mail. According to unconfirmed estimates of researchers, it belonged to a man who lived 550-580 thousand years.

"The tooth belonged to an adult, but we cannot claim that he was the representative of strong sex or fairer sex," commented the find paleoanthropology Amelie Violet. Professionals believe that the age of the detected fragment per 100 thousand years exceeds the age of the most ancient of fashionable archaeologists of human ancestors. This suggests that the caves were inhabited even earlier than commonly believed.

"This is an important finding, because we have quite a few human remains of the period, found in Europe," said paleoanthropology. The researchers have no doubt that the study of the tooth to make a large number of new discoveries comparatively ancestors of modern European inhabitant of our planet.

Earlier it was reported that during the excavations in Ethiopia archaeologists have found a new kind of old man who lived 3.5 million years ago. This Australopithecus were extremely powerful jaws. Besides all this, he had far less teeth than she already eminent forefathers of man. This discovery has allowed scientists to imagine that the emergence of progressive people has a much more difficult story than was listed previously.
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