Archaeologist Yossi Zaidner from the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology shows a fossil fragment of a skull at a Tel Aviv University lab in the eponymous Israeli coastal city, on June 27, 2021. The remains that were uncovered at the site of excavations in the quarry of a cement plant near the central city of Ramla, consisted of bones belonging to a "new type of early human" previously unknown to science, researchers said on June 24, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution. GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP.