Looking for Man's origins in a Bulgarian savannah
June 16, 2017
Seven million years ago the sunflower and corn fields in parts of southern Bulgaria were like an African savannah, roamed by gazelles and giraffes.
And perhaps also, amazingly, by the oldest known human ancestor—which most scientists have hitherto believed came from Africa.
A small team of researchers hopes to find proof of human origins in Bulgaria as they gingerly recover fossils from the clay of a dried-up river bed near the sleepy village of Rupkite in the June sunshine.
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https://phys.org/news/2017-06-bulgarian-savannah.html#jCp
