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Detailed explanation-1: -TEL AVIV: Scientists said on Thursday they had discovered a new kind of early human after studying pieces of fossilised bone dug up at a site used by a cement plant in central Israel.

Detailed explanation-2: -Homo bodoensis is the proposed name for fossils of a group of hominins that lived in Africa during a period commonly known as the Middle Pleistocene, but now technically called the Chibanian, between 770, 000 and 126, 000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -The team members think the individual descended from an earlier species that may have spread out of the region hundreds of thousands of years ago and given rise to Neanderthals in Europe and their equivalents in Asia. The scientists have named the newly discovered lineage the “Nesher Ramla Homo type".

Detailed explanation-4: -Later excavations led by anthropologist Israel Hershkovitz in 2021 led to the discovery of five pieces of a braincase and a nearly-complete lower jaw. The remains were dated to 140–120 kya, during the Middle Pleistocene.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fragments representing people who lived just before Skhūl and Qafzeh seem outside the expectations for these “early modern humans” or for Neandertals. Nesher Ramla is an archaeological site midway between the modern cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, which was discovered inside of a working quarry.