ArabiaWeather.com – Two French students were able to find a 560,000-year-old human tooth in a famous cave in the southwest of the country, and that tooth is the oldest part of a human body discovered in the country, and it is rare in that era in continental Europe.
Paleontologist Tony Chevalier, a researcher at the Toutaville Archaeological Laboratory, described the find as "significant".
Chevalier told The Associated Press that this tooth would help bridge the gap between a very few of the oldest human fossils, particularly those found in Spain and Germany.
He added that thousands of discoveries at the site include prehistoric tools and animal bones, especially horses and buffaloes.
"We think that these men lived for a long time in the cave or that they frequented it regularly. We also know that the area was very cold at that time. It was a treeless area. There was snow in this area for long periods," according to Chevalier.
The Toutaville Cave is one of the references for archaeologists all over the world.
There were excavations in the cave for 50 years, and it was famous for finding a human skull in it dating back to about 450,000 years ago in the early seventies of the last century, known by scientists as the "Tautaville Man".
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