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Prehistoric cannibal victim found in death cave ID’ed as a young girl – Livescience.com
The individual was formerly known as “The Boy of Gran Dolina.”
About 800,000 years ago in what is now Spain, cannibals devoured an early human child who became known as “The Boy of Gran Dolina.” But new analysis of these ancient remains has revealed a surprising twist: the child was a girl.
The child was a Homo antecessor, an early hominin species that lived in Europe between 1.2 million and 800,000 years ago. Discovered in 1994 in the Gran Dolina cave in northern Spain’s Atapuerca Mountains, the species is known primarily from fragments of bones and teeth,…
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