A Middle Pleistocene
            <i>Homo</i>
            from Nesher Ramla, Israel

Hershkovitz, Israel; May, Hila; Sarig, Rachel; Pokhojaev, Ariel; Grimaud-Hervé, Dominique; Bruner, Emiliano; Fornai, Cinzia; Quam, Rolf; Arsuaga, Juan Luís; Krenn, Viktoria A.; Martinón‐Torres, María; Castro, José Marı́a Bermúdez de; Martín‐Francés, Laura; Slon, Viviane; Albessard-Ball, Lou; Vialet, Amélie; Schüler, Tim; Manzi, Giorgio; Profico, Antonio; Vincenzo, Fabio Di; Weber, Gerhard; Zaidner, Yossi

doi:10.1126/science.abh3169

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“…The lowermost Unit VI, the focus of this study, is ~1 m thick and is subdivided into five layers (VI I1 to I5). A right parietal human bone and an almost complete human mandible (21) were found in layer VI I3, which is located in the middle of a sedimentological sequence of Unit VI (Fig. 2, B and D, and fig.…”

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“…Two recently discovered human fossils at Nesher Ramla (21) provide evidence of the presence of archaic MP Homo in the Levant in a Middle Paleolithic context, during a period when the area was presumably inhabited by only H. sapiens. This suggests a long overlap-ping period between these two Homo groups (21). Our study of the lithic assemblage from stratigraphic Unit VI of the site, associated with the Nesher Ramla fossils (Fig.…”

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Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

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Fossils of a Middle Pleistocene (MP) Homo within a well-defined archaeological context at the open-air site of Nesher Ramla, Israel, shed light on MP Homo culture and behavior. Radiometric ages, along with cultural and stratigraphic considerations, suggest that the fossils are 140,000 to 120,000 years old, chronologically overlapping with H. sapiens in western Asia. Lithic analysis reveals that MP Homo mastered stone-tool production technologies, previously known only among H. sapiens and Neanderthals. The Levallois knapping methods they used are indistinguishable from that of concurrent H. sapiens in western Asia. The most parsimonious explanation for such a close similarity is the cultural interactions between these two populations. These findings constitute evidence of contacts and interactions between H. sapiens and MP Homo.

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Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

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“…The oddity seems to match up with a handful of other fossils found around Israel, none of which had previously been classified. In a pair of studies 1,2 published in Science on 24 June, the authors propose that all of these fossils belong to a new hominin population -the Nesher Ramla people -who might have dominated the region for hundreds of thousands of years.…”

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Mysterious skull fossils expand human family tree — but questions remain

Jones¹

2021

Nature

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ossils dating from around 140,000 years ago are adding to the ranks of hominins that mixed with early modern humans.A collection of fossils from Israel hint that a previously unknown group of hominins, proposed to be the direct ancestors of Neanderthals, might have dominated life in the Levant and lived alongside Homo sapiens 1,2 . Meanwhile, researchers studying an ancient human skull found in China have controversially classified it as a new species -dubbed Dragon Man -which might be an even closer relative to modern humans than are Neanderthals 3,4 .But both findings have sparked debate. The studies are based on analyses of the size, shape and structure of fossilized bones -methods that are subject to individual judgement and interpretation. As is often the case for fossil finds, there is no DNA evidence.

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“…Its favorable ecological niches served as multiple stopovers on the way of Man's movement to the east of the Forward Asia. At the end of the post-Akchagylian regression period (about 1.1-0.8 Ma ago), there was the development by Man (Hershkovitz et al, 2021) of southern Eurasia and northern Africa (e.g., Camps and Chauhan, 2009;Fleagle et al, 2010).…”

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“…This topological paradox is well illustrated by numerous paleo-archaeological, anthropological, paleontological, paleomagnetic, radiometric and landscape-ecosystem research methods (e.g., Ronen, 1991;Heimann. and Braun, 2000;Goren-Inbar et al, 2004;Bobe et al, 2007;Camps and Chauhan, 2009;Belmaker, 2010;Guseinov, 2010;Leakey and Werdelin, 2010;Davis et al, 2011;Scardia et al, 2019;Trifonov et al, 2019;Ozherel'yev et al, 2020;Hershkovitz et al, 2021;Schelinsky, 2021).…”

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Combined Zonation of the African-Levantine-Caucasian Areal of Ancient Hominin: Review and Integrated Analysis of Paleogeographical, Stratigraphic and Geophysical-Geodynamical Data

Eppelbaum¹,

Katz²

2021

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The origin of the man at the Earth is directly associated with the determination of directions of the flow distribution of the ancient man migration to adjacent territories. In such studies traditionally mainly landscape and climatological changes are considered. We suggest that along with the above factors, regional tectonic-geodynamic factors played a dominant role in the character of migration. The considered African-Levantine-Caucasian region is one of the most complex regions of the world, where collisional and spreading processes of geodynamics converge. First is determined an essential influence of the Akchagylian hydrospheric maximum (about 200 m above the mean sea level) limiting the ancient men migration from Africa to Eurasia. We propose that the Levantine Corridor emerged after the end of the Akchagylian transgression and landscape forming in the Eastern Mediterranean. This corridor location was formed by the movements between the Dead Sea Transform and the boundary of the carbonate platform of the Mesozoic Terrane Belt. Further landscape evolution was largely determined by the geodynamic behavior of the deep mantle rotating structure occurring below the central part of the region under study. All the mentioned events around and in the Levantine Corridor have been studied in detail on the basis of the combined geodynamic, paleogeographic, and paleomagnetic analyzes performed in northern Israel (Carmel uplift and Galilee plateau). Careful studies of the Evron quarry geological section indicate that it is a unique one for the dating of the marine and continental archaeological sequences and sheds light on the movement of the ancient man along the Levantine Corridor.

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A Middle Pleistocene Homo from Nesher Ramla, Israel

Cited by 54 publications

References 102 publications

Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

Middle Pleistocene Homo behavior and culture at 140,000 to 120,000 years ago and interactions with Homo sapiens

Mysterious skull fossils expand human family tree — but questions remain

Combined Zonation of the African-Levantine-Caucasian Areal of Ancient Hominin: Review and Integrated Analysis of Paleogeographical, Stratigraphic and Geophysical-Geodynamical Data

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