We are always surrounded by endless questions about the emergence of humanity. The origin of the human race finds theories that reaffirm or disperse over the years. The work of archaeologists is essential to justify so many questions about who we are today. Where did we come from anyway? One of the biggest pieces of evidence found happened in 1998, when scientists found a skeleton in the Lapedo valley, in Portugal, which is 150 km from the capital of the European country.
The skeleton was of a boy, with a maximum of 4 years old. Archaeologists estimated that those remains had been there for 29,000 years.
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The discovery reaffirms that humans have lived with neanderthals* and had sex with each other.
*The Neanderthal individual (known as Homo neanderthalensis in the binomial classification) represents an extinct human ancestor species that coexisted with modern humans. They emerged during the Middle Pleistocene, approximately 400,000 years ago, in Europe and the Middle East, and disappeared from the Iberian Peninsula around 28,000 years ago.
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Skeleton proves sexual relationship between humans and Neanderthals
The discovery was a great theoretical apparatus, as reported by researcher João Zilhão, leader of the team of archaeologists. In an interview with the BBC, the expert said that the anatomy found on the boy's bones had something strange.
The jaw indicated that it was a modern human, but parts of the body had features of a Neanderthal.
The discovery highlighted the relationship between humans and Neanderthals, as stated by Zilhao: “the only thing that could explain this combination of features is that the child was, in fact, evidence that Neanderthals and modern humans became crossed”.
From the discovery, two hypotheses became evident: humans did not interbreed with Neanderthals or they just met. The skeleton informed science that the races not only interbred, but also had sex with each other.
For the research leader, the boy found in Lapedo has similar characteristics with other species that lived in the same region.
If these similarities are common in that zone, it means that most humans have anatomical features on ancestry.
“If after so many millennia since contact time, people living in this part of the world still show anatomical evidence of this ancestral population of Neanderthals, it must be because interbreeding didn't just happen once, it was the norm."
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