Του Γιώργου Λεκάκη
Διεθνής ομάδα αρχαιολόγων και
παλαιοανθρωπολόγων ανέλυσε το δόντι ενός παιδιού Νεάντερταλ, το οποίο
ανακαλύφθηκε στο καταφύγιο Baba Yawan, στην περιοχή του
Ζάγκρος / Zagros, του Δυτικού Ιράν, το 2017.
Το παιδικό δόντι βρέθηκε
ανάμεσα σε οστά ζώων και πέτρινα εργαλεία Νεάντερταλ.
Ο κ. Stefano Benazzi του
Πανεπιστημίου της Μπολόνια είπε ότι το δόντι χρονολογείται μεταξύ 43.600 και 41.500 χρόνων πριν.
Δεν αποτελεί έκπληξη, καθώς η
περιοχή κατοικείτο από Νεάντερταλ ήδη πριν από 80.000 χρόνια! Και πριν από 40.000
– 45.000 χρόνια πριν, οι σύγχρονοι άνθρωποι (homo Sapiens) εισήλθαν
στην περιοχή.
ΠΗΓΗ: Saman Heydari-Guran, Stefano
Benazzi, Sahra Talamo, Elham Ghasidian, Nemat Hariri, Gregorio Oxilia, Samran
Asiabani, Faramarz Azizi, Rahmat Naderi, Reza Safaierad, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Robert
A. Foley, Marta M. Lahr «The discovery of an in situ Neanderthal remain in theBawa Yawan Rockshelter, West-Central Zagros Mountains, Kermanshah», https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253708 στο PLOS ONE, 26.82021. ΑΡΧΕΙΟΝ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ, 27.8.2021.
Tehran
Times, 28.8.2021.
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| Fig 4. Lower left deciduous canine (BY1). A) BY1 in different views. B) The enamel-dentine junction of the tooth shows the cervical eminence and lingual ridges. Abbreviations: B: buccal, L: lingual, M: mesial, D: distal, O: occlusal. |
Abstract
Neanderthal extinction has been a matter of debate for many years. New
discoveries, better chronologies and genomic evidence have done much to clarify
some of the issues. This evidence suggests that Neanderthals became extinct
around 40,000–37,000 years before present (BP), after a period of coexistence
with Homo sapiens of several millennia, involving biological and cultural
interactions between the two groups. However, the bulk of this evidence relates
to Western Eurasia, and recent work in Central Asia and Siberia has shown that
there is considerable local variation. Southwestern Asia, despite having a
number of significant Neanderthal remains, has not played a major part in the
debate over extinction. Here we report a Neanderthal deciduous canine from the
site of Bawa Yawan in the West-Central Zagros Mountains of Iran. The tooth is
associated with Zagros Mousterian lithics, and its context is preliminary dated
to between ~43,600 and ~41,500 years ago.
