France: The discovery of a 560,000-year-old `human tooth`.
<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com – Two French students were able to find a 560,000-year-old human tooth in a famous cave in the southwest of the country, and that tooth is the oldest part of a human body discovered in the country, and it is rare in that era in continental Europe.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Paleontologist Tony Chevalier, a researcher at the Toutaville Archaeological Laboratory, described the find as "significant".</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Chevalier told The Associated Press that this tooth would help bridge the gap between a very few of the oldest human fossils, particularly those found in Spain and Germany.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> He added that thousands of discoveries at the site include prehistoric tools and animal bones, especially horses and buffaloes.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> "We think that these men lived for a long time in the cave or that they frequented it regularly. We also know that the area was very cold at that time. It was a treeless area. There was snow in this area for long periods," according to Chevalier.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The Toutaville Cave is one of the references for archaeologists all over the world.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> There were excavations in the cave for 50 years, and it was famous for finding a human skull in it dating back to about 450,000 years ago in the early seventies of the last century, known by scientists as the "Tautaville Man".</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> See also:</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://jo.arabiaweather.com/content/%D8%A3%D9%8F%D9%85-%D8%AA%D9%8F%D8%B... mother sacrifices her life to save her child from being crushed under an escalator</a></p><p data-select-like-a-boss="1" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://jo.arabiaweather.com/content/%D8%B7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D9%8A%D8%B... doctor finds 20 louses in a Chinese woman's eye</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <a href="http://jo.arabiaweather.com/content/6-%D9%81%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%AF-%D9... benefits of drinking cold water on an empty stomach</a></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>
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