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They could have also belonged to a hybrid who was a mix of Neanderthal and archaic Homo, says paleoanthropologist Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University, which would add another member to the diverse cast of hominins that ranged across Eurasia and Africa during the Middle Pleistocene, some 790,000 to 130,000 years ago.

Neanderthals and archaic Homo sapiens probably also had a hard time talking behind each other’s backs—a much maligned ability which is in fact essential for cooperation in large numbers.

Similar patterns probably dominated the social lives of early humans, including archaic Homo sapiens.

We don’t know yet if it’s a modern human, an archaic Homo or a Neanderthal, because it will take at least 18 months to expose the bones.

They called it “archaic Homo sapiens.”