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This blows my mind because it reminds me of how we find dinosaurs!

I love time team, and I know it's not even close to neanderthals. But I've grown accustomed to them finding human remains in soil. But this is in sedimentary rock! It's like a fossilized human, sort of.

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It is a fossilized human if you consider neanderthals human. They have now confirmed that they made art, that is good enough for me. The teeth aren't mineralized but they never are. A hundred million year old shark tooth is still a tooth not a fossil. But this jaw bone was mineralized, so it is a fossil. It doesn't take anything close 1.2 million years to fossilze a bone, and they think that is how old it was. I do see what you mean though, for something like 95% of our history, we had minds resembling our own, but lived such different lives.

I found out not long ago that Time Team episodes are officially available on YouTube, both old and new:

https://www.youtube.com/@TimeTeamClassics

https://www.youtube.com/@TimeTeamOfficial

Oh I know! :D

And also Prof. Alice Roberts has a great series called Unearthed History[1] where Phil Harding featured recently.

1. https://www.youtube.com/@UnearthedHistoryChannel

Does Phil still wear short shorts?

For that dig he sported a very trendy pair of naturally torn jeans.

Thank you.

I thought it ended years ago.

It did, but they've crowd funded at least one new episode through patreon subscriptions.

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