April
24
/ 2024
During a visit to his parents' recently renovated European home, a man made an unexpected discovery within one of the floor tiles. Upon closer examination, he identified the object as part of a prehistoric human jawbone, complete with a few intact teeth, 4-5 in number. It probably belonged to either a modern human (Homo sapiens) or, more likely, an extinct hominin like Homo erectus or a Neanderthal, placing it anywhere between 24,000 years and 1.9 million years old! Being a dentist himself, the Reddit user was able to recognize the bone, a detail he shared in a post on the micro-blogging site. This exciting but puzzling discovery clearly alludes to the fact that a tile in his parent’s house contained
