Can human hibernate?
Hello everyone! 😉 I hope you have rested well during the Holidays and you are ready for a new dose of news from the world of archaeology . Since this is the last post this extraordinary year, I’d like to share with you a discovery straight out of a science fiction movie! 📽 In the Atapuerca Mountains in Spain there is a cave called Sima de los Huesos (which means “Pit of the Bones”). As you can easily guess from the name, it is famous because of human fossils that were found there in the 1970s and 1980s. Archaeologists have determined that the remains are approximately 430,000 years old , which means that they come from the Middle Pleistocene. skull fragments, Sima de los Huesos / JAVIER TRUEBA, MADRID SCIENTIFIC FILMS Although the research conducted on remains is very interesting, I’d like to focus on a discovery that is perhaps less archaeological and more biological as it concerns the capacity of the human organism. In December this year two paleoanthropologists, Antonis Barts