The tooth was found by students who were working voluntarily in the Arago Cave in Tautavel, in the Pyrénées-Orientales département in southern France.
The site is already famous in archaeological circles as it was there that the Tautavel Man was discovered, a 450,000-year-old Homo Erectus.
The tooth predates the Tautavel Man by 100,000 years.
L'Homme de #Tautavel prend un coup de jeune : une dent de 560 000 ans av JC découverte ! http://t.co/YywIZMTX8R pic.twitter.com/7ZAXdeju94
— FranceBleuRoussillon (@bleuroussillon) July 27, 2015

(Photo: Denis Dainat/Musée de Tautavel)
The tooth was found by volunteer Camille, 16, on Thursday last week as she was working with another young archaeologist.
Découverte à Tautavel. Une dent repousse de 100.000 ans, à 550.000 ans, le plus vieux reste humain trouvé en France pic.twitter.com/L7HBGTOlKp
— Musée de Tautavel (@MuseedeTautavel) July 27, 2015
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