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News: <p><a href='https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/new-prehistoric-human-unknown-to-science-discovered-in-israel-671949'>New prehistoric human unknown to science discovered in Israel</a> | The Jerusalem Post (01:20)</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">A new type of early human previously not known to scientists has been discovered in Israel, Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University researchers announced Thursday, July 14th. <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">They believe this new “Homo” species intermarried with Homo sapiens and was an ancestor of the Neanderthals.</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The dig site, Nesher Ramla, a few kilometers from the modern-day city, was probably close to a water reservoir where early humans could hunt animals.<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Filled with many animal bones, stone tools for making fire and butchering</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Prof. Israel Hershkovitz talked on the dig site:<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">“We know that modern humans – or Homo sapiens – arrived in this area some 200,000 years ago … When we started excavating and examining the different archaeological layers, we found that they dated back between 140,000 and 120,000 years ago, so we expected to find remains of Homo sapiens. We did not realize that another form of human was living alongside them.”</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The researchers believe that the newly discovered human type, which they named after the site, lived in the region hundreds of thousands of years ago and at least until 130,000 years ago.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The findings may radically change what researchers have so far believed about how ancient populations evolved and interacted.<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Especially how sapiens and Neanderthal, other ancient human types, related to each other.</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Researchers believe the Nesher Ramla was an ancestor of the Neanderthals and other archaic Asian populations.<ul><li styl