The history of scientists remains an old child that resembles both human beings and Eristanis

New York (AP) – Scientists have dated the skeleton of the old child who caused a stir when he was first discovered because it carries advantages of human beings and human beings.

The remains of the child were discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in the center of Portugal. The whole skeleton was stained in red, and scientists believe that it may be wrapped in the skin of an animal coated before the burial.

When the human child was discovered, scientists noticed that some of their features – including the dimensions of the body and the jaw bone – started Neanderthal. The researchers suggested that the child was descended from the population in which humans and the Anfalists married. This was a radical idea at that time, but the progress in genetics has since proven the presence of these population – and today people still carry primitive DNA.

But trying to know when the child lived exactly was difficult. Small roots have grown through bones and pollution – from plants or other sources – made it impossible for scientists to use traditional carbon dating to measure the child’s age. Instead, their history dates back to the bones of coal and animal around the skeleton to between 27700 and 29,700 years.

The technologies have improved, and the researchers on Friday in the magazine of Science were submitting that they were able to determine the date of the skeleton by measuring a part of a protein found primarily in human bones.

Upon examining part of a broken arm, they revealed that the previous estimate was on the field: the skeleton was between 27700 and 28600 years.

“To be able to successfully determine the dates of the child, bring them back to a small piece of their story, which is a great privilege,” said Bethannskot, a study author now at Miami University, in an email.

She noted that the initial discovery was more than just a skeleton – it was also the grave of a small child. Upon dating bones, you could only ask who loved the child, and what made them laugh and what their world seemed in the four short years that followed the planet.

The study is an example of how dating methods become more effective and help scientists better understand the past.

The author of the study, Joao Zellhao of the University of Lisbon, said that the study of where humans came from an important matter for the same reason that we keep in the images of our fathers and grandparents. “

He said, “It is a way to remember.”

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