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The remains of the Lapedo child found in Portugal in 1998 show signs that he is both Neanderthal and a person, as later confirmed by DNA.
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New radio -carbon dating techniques have allowed scientists to meet the remains of about 28,000 years ago.
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The cutting time line of dating places the remains of approximately 40,000 years outside the Neanderthal disappearance.
The Neanderthal genes seem to have been hanging long after the Neanderthals themselves have coped, since the new scientific dating of the famous Lapedo child remains that he remains from a child with human and Neanderthal traits has been tens of thousands of years later, when the latter disappeared.
The child of Lapedo, discovered by a coincidence by archaeologists, inspecting the rock formations in Portugal in 1998, at that time awakened the scientific community with the obvious mix of Neanderthal and human characteristics, and the more incurring DNA testing confirms that there are genes from the two groups. Now in a new study published by Science is progressingA team of researchers wrote that updated radio -carbon dating technique allowed them to indulge in the remains of between 27 780 and 2850 years ago 40,000 years ago, after the Neanderthals disappeared.
The skeleton-colored skeleton of approximately 4- or 5-year-old child, the body believes that the body is wrapped in painted animal skin for a funeral in the rock shelter of Lidar Velho-when it is found that “manifested a mosaic of the Neandal and anatomically modern human traits. Initial observations show different markers, such as a prominent human chin, but short, protruding legs, similar to Neandertal.
But at the moment of dating, it was complicated thanks to the technology of the era (or lack) and the fact that the plants began to grow in the bones. Throughout all these years later, the team used a hydroxyproline “direct compound specific to radio carbon”, so far five bones and a major context-these contexts included rabbit bones found at the peak of the child, deer bones near the remains and carbon under the body-to rethink the dating. The process has determined that the remains are approximately 28,000 years.
“The main advantage of radio -carbon -specific radio is that it is extremely effective in eliminating archaeological bone pollution,” said Betan Linskot, geochimist at the University of Miami and the first study, to the first author LiveS “This is especially important when dealing with poorly preserved bones, as even the traces of contamination present in such samples can seriously affect the accuracy of the date.”
With each element that returns the similar range of dates, researchers believe that they have found more information about the funeral process that could include animals such as supply and charcoal as a ritual fire.
“To be able to successfully meet the child that you bring them back a small piece of their story,” Linskot told them to Associated Press“Which is a huge privilege.”
After the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced for about a decade after the find, it began the process of understanding of the interrogation between people and Neanderthals and how DNA Neanderthal DNA has survived for centuries.
More specific carbon dating techniques for paleolithic bones could help researchers develop an updated timeline on how the Neanderthals, which experts think they disappeared about 40,000 years ago, intertwined with modern people and how it still plays in DNA today.
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