{"id":18149,"date":"2026-01-31T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/?p=18149"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:03:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:03:58","slug":"documenter-lascendance-africaine-de-sapiens-necessite-plus-de-fossiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/2026\/01\/31\/documenter-lascendance-africaine-de-sapiens-necessite-plus-de-fossiles\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab&nbsp;Documenter l\u2019ascendance africaine de &#8220;sapiens&#8221; n\u00e9cessite plus de fossiles&nbsp;\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p><b>David Lef\u00e8vre : <\/b>Oui, certains avancent l\u2019hypoth\u00e8se d\u2019une origine eurasiatique. Des fossiles d\u00e9couverts en Espagne et dat\u00e9s entre 950\u00a0000 et 780\u00a0000\u00a0ans ont \u00e9t\u00e9 propos\u00e9s comme pouvant \u00eatre une population ancestrale d\u2019<i>Homo sapiens<\/i>. Mais leurs traits d\u00e9riv\u00e9s pr\u00e9sentent d\u00e9j\u00e0 des caract\u00e8res qui seront observ\u00e9s plus tard chez N\u00e9andertal. Des travaux en Chine tentent aussi de d\u00e9montrer qu\u2019<i>Homo sapiens<\/i> y serait apparu avant de migrer en Afrique. Un fossile a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 l\u2019an dernier comme \u00e9tant un anc\u00eatre vieux de 1,1\u00a0million d\u2019ann\u00e9es. Cette interpr\u00e9tation est largement rejet\u00e9e par les pal\u00e9oanthropologues. Pour ma part, je suis surtout tr\u00e8s dubitatif sur la datation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Que faudrait-il pour \u00eatre certain de l\u2019origine africaine d\u2019&#8221;Homo sapiens&#8221; ?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>D.L. :<\/b> Il faudrait plus de fossiles bien dat\u00e9s entre environ 1\u00a0million d\u2019ann\u00e9es et 315\u00a0000\u00a0ans \u2013 \u00e2ge du plus ancien repr\u00e9sentant connu d\u2019<i>Homo sapiens<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ces fossiles humains marocains ont-ils encore<br \/>des choses \u00e0 nous dire ? <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>D.L. :<\/b> L\u2019essentiel a \u00e9t\u00e9 fait. Les fouilles continuent dans la grotte o\u00f9 ils ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couverts, mais le site qui nous occupera \u00e0 l\u2019avenir se situe dans une grotte voisine : la \u00ab\u00a0Grotte des rhinoc\u00e9ros\u00a0\u00bb. C\u2019est un site d\u2019une richesse exceptionnelle o\u00f9 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9couverts des dizaines de cr\u00e2nes de rhinoc\u00e9ros, d\u2019innombrables fossiles de la faune \u2013gazelles, girafes&#8230;-, des outils taill\u00e9s et une dent humaine.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Lef&egrave;vre : Oui, certains avancent l&rsquo;hypoth&egrave;se d&rsquo;une origine eurasiatique. Des fossiles d&eacute;couverts en Espagne et dat&eacute;s entre 950&nbsp;000 et 780&nbsp;000&nbsp;ans ont &eacute;t&eacute; propos&eacute;s &#8230;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3926,3925,20],"tags":[1793,343,240,988,2001],"news-destination":[3944],"news-source":[475],"is_homepage":[],"ta_other":[],"class_list":["post-18149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accueil-merge","category-accueil-third","category-societe","tag-archeologie","tag-entretien","tag-montpellier","tag-week-end","tag-weekend","news-destination-homepage","news-source-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18151,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18149\/revisions\/18151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18149"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=18149"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=18149"},{"taxonomy":"is_homepage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/is_homepage?post=18149"},{"taxonomy":"ta_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euapp01.newsmemory.com\/lamarseillaise\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ta_other?post=18149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}