Earliest Traces of a Disabled, Aged Human Found
Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News, 12/10/2010
A prehistoric pelvis, nicknamed ‘Elvis’, and other fossilized bones are what’s left of the world’s first known elderly human with clear signs of aging and impairment, according to a paper in the latest Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The remains, which date back to 500,000 years ago, also represent the earliest post-cranial evidence for an aged individual in the human fossil record. The elderly fellow, who lived in Spain, was a member of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a type of ancient human believed by some to be exclusive to Europe and ancestral only to Neanderthals.
Διαβάστε επίσης το ελληνικό άρθρο στο περιοδικό Αρχαιολογία