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The importance of a 88.000 year old piece of finger
  • In the desert of El Nefud (Saudi Arabia), in the site known as Al Wusta, a fossilized finger of the species Homo Sapiens has been discovered which, through uranium series, has been dated by the Max Planck Institute of Human History Science in 88.000 years.
Nagore Irazustabarrena Uranga @irazustabarrena 2018ko apirilaren 18a
(Argazkia: Ian Cartwright)(Argazkia: Ian Cartwright)

The results of the research have been published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution:It is the first trace of our species discovered in the Arabian peninsula and the oldest bone of Homo Sapiens that has been found outside East Africa and the Mediterranean.

It's nothing more than a central phalanx of a finger, a piece about three centimeters, but only he indicates that the first dispersion of our species, the expansion of Africa to Eurasia, was more extensive than previously thought.