Banyoles

Fossilized jaw from Banyoles was not Neanderthal

(ORDO NEWS) — Paleoanthropologists have studied a 41,000 to 73,000-year-old mandible from Banyoles, discovered at the end of the 19th century. Although this fossil was long thought to be a Neanderthal, scientists have found no characteristic features to attribute it to this species. On the contrary, the results of the analyzes showed that it is more similar to the jaws of people of the modern anatomical type, but at the…