Dentist finds human jawbone encased in parents'' travertine floor

During a visit to his parents' recently renovated home in Europe, a dentist made a surprising discovery - a jawbone embedded in one of the bathroom floor tiles. And, no, it is not the kind with screen-print but the real deal, gathered from a real quarry.

The Discovery

The newly renovated floor used travertine, a naturally occurring stone that forms over long periods of time. This particular piece was likely quarried from Spain or Turkey, according to the Reddit thread. The time it takes for travertine to form makes the timeline anywhere between 24,000 years to 1.9 million years since the tragic departure of the jaw from the man.

Implications

Depending on the actual age of the fossilized jaw, this might have implications for dating our ancestry. By first sight, most of the alleged dentists scurrying to the Reddit thread, conclude it likely is a jaw from a modern human, i.e. homo erectus.

Bathroom industry's coming response

In the bathroom industry, we've seen a rush among companies to sustainable and recycled materials. While this type of recycling probably isn't what most are imagining, the answers to the thread indicate there's a non-insignificant group of people who would pay many monies to walk on bones. Literally.

Any bathroom company worth its salt would immediately start to manufacture tiles, washbasins, toilets, and bathtubs with recycled human remains!

Think a faucet where the water exits through the index finger of a hand, called "The Deluge".