Scientists Reveal the First European Faces Were Not ‘White’
Much to the dismay of any
would-be “White Supremacists,” scientists have recently revealed that
the face of the first Europeans were surprisingly Sub-Saharan African in
appearance.
The head of the prototypical “First European” was recreated from bone fragments,
an incomplete skull and jawbone.
These pieces were discovered in a cave in the south west region of
Romania’s Carpathian Mountains.
At that time, Europe was inhabited by Homo Neanderthalis, or the Neanderthal man, who were quickly replaced by African nomadic peoples. The Neanderthal Genome Project has posited that the Neanderthals were killed off by these migrating groups. The first true homo sapiens (and homo sapien sapiens), in Europe, apparently would not have been recognizable as ethnically “Caucasian” whatsoever. Those traits, often identified as “white,” seem to have emerged much later, after Europe was settled by African peoples who looked like those Neave has recreated for us here.
The primary difference between this skull and later homo sapien sapiens are the unusually large molar teeth, which has led some scientists to speculate that the skull represents some intermixing with the native Homo Neanderthalis.
Whether or not that is the case, what is certain is that the appearance of the first truly “human” European ancestors looked nothing like what many would expect.
Erik Trinkaus, professor of anthropology at Washington University in Missouri, said the jaw in particular is the oldest, modern human fossil that can be directly-dated, saying that, “Taken together, the material is the first that securely documents what modern humans looked like when they spread into Europe.”
That might be a bit of a disappointment to those last remaining doubters that all of humanity originated in Africa and spread out from there.
(Article by Shante Wooten; Image via BBC)
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