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Hello, i have this misterious tooth in my collection. It looks very much like a human one, but is it really one ? It seems to be (hopefully!) really old, not fully mineralized, but old. It has some dark, hard material attached to the sandet down crown, which migth formed during lifetime maybe ? I hope its really old, because most human material=trouble. How old do you think it is and from which species it is ? Let me know ! I found it on the beach of Hejlsminde, Denmark. Sice : 2cm in length, crown measures around 0.7 cm in length, 0.7cm in thickness too, and the base measures 1.3cm in length, and 0.1cm in thickness at the very bottom.

Twas a bit chilly. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66331558

A group of UK scientists reexamined a group of late stage Neanderthal teeth from the early 1900s with modern techniques such as CT scanning. They discovered a mix of new characteristics indicative of both modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthal, more evidence supporting a gradual absorption of Neanderthals into emerging modern human populations. Article Link Published Paper Link (Not free access)

Not sure if it's relevant enough to paleontology. Isn't stone tools older than 10k years considered a form of hominoid ichnofossil? Anyway, they claimed the stone tools they found in a cave is as old as 30k years old, that mean humans were in Americas 15k years earlier than originally thought. If they or others find more evidences to support this claim, that would be awesome! On a different note, that led me to think why we have not found any fossils from different human species, such as Neanderthals or Homo erectus, in Americas and also if they never crossed to Americas, what prevented them? https://phys.org/news/2020-07-earliest-humans-americas-oldest-hotel.html?fbclid=IwAR0EzYeHRzrfdpV7q0twpiwJAXiBA-hkwQUUOQaEonltGz4r3MjAmcEWUWY

We are all cute and cuddly! It wasn't us. (probably not entirely, anyway) https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46306622

Indonesia: First Humans May Have Arrived in Sumatra in Time for Toba Supervolcano Eruption, New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142952-early-humans-may-have-seen-a-supervolcano-explosion-up-close/ Old teeth from a rediscovered cave show humans were in Indonesia more than 63,000 years ago August 10, 2017 by Kira Westaway, The Conversation https://phys.org/news/2017-08-teeth-rediscovered-cave-humans-indonesia.html Westaway, K. E., J. Louys, R. Due Awe, and others, 2017, An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000– 63,000 years ago. Nature (2017) doi:10.1038/nature23452 Received 30 March 2017 Accepted 29 June 2017 Published online 09 August 2017 https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature23452.html Related articles: Are we ready for the next volcanic catastrophe? Bill McGuire, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/28/are-we-ready-for-the-next-big-volcanic-eruption-tambora-bill-mcguire Toba catastrophe theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory Yours, Paul H.

An interesting discovery of early Homo sapiens fossils in Morocco as opposed to just E. Africa: From the CBC: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/oldest-homo-sapiens-discovered-morocco-1.4147852 Similar, but with some additional information, courtesy of the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40194150