History and Art and Culture
In News: Atapuerca Foundation in Spain dug up an ancient jawbone that could help understand Europe’s earliest human civilisation
- The surprise find, which could be about 1.4 million years old, could also give vital clues to the evolution of the human face over the millennia
- The fossilised fragment of an upper jaw and cheekbone was found near caves in the Atapuerca Mountains in northern Spain’s Burgos province, the site of other ancient remains.
Source: The Hindu
Previous Year Question
Q.1) The word ‘Denisovan’ is sometimes mentioned in media in reference to (2019)
- fossils of a kind of dinosaurs
- an early human species
- a cave system found in North-East India
- a geological period in the history of Indian subcontinent
