Tetoiu is a commune located in Vâlcea County, Oltenia, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Băroiu, Budele, Măneasa, Nenciulești, Popești, Tetoiu (until 1968 Bugiulești) and Țepești.

In the Bugiulești area in 1962, the paleoanthropologist Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor uncovered several humanoid fossilised bone fragments, including a skull, believed to belong to a variety of Homo habilis (dubbed Homo olteniensis or Australoanthropus olteniensis) dating back roughly two million years, which would make them the oldest hominid fossils in Europe,[2] although the discovery and authenticity has been questioned.[3] Some of the artefacts are currently exhibited in the Museum of Oltenia in Craiova, although the more "controversial" findings are located in the Vasile Pârvan Institute of Archaeology.

References

  1. ^ "Populaţia rezidentă după grupa de vârstă, pe județe și municipii, orașe, comune, la 1 decembrie 2021" (XLS). National Institute of Statistics.
  2. ^ "Primul om din Europa a fost descoperit la Vâlcea". ramnicuvalceaweek.ro (in Romanian). 19 January 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  3. ^ "Cel mai „batran" Homo Sapiens din Europa descoperit in Romania". mixdecultura.ro (in Romanian). 12 May 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetoiu
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