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7. Juni 2017 · Fossils recovered from an old mine on a desolate mountain in Morocco have rocked one of the most enduring foundations of the human story: that Homo sapiens arose in a cradle of humankind in East...
- Cradle of Humankind in East Africa
Cradle of Humankind in East Africa - Oldest Homo sapiens...
- Fossils
Fossils - Oldest Homo sapiens bones ever found shake...
- Evolution
Evolution - Oldest Homo sapiens bones ever found shake...
- Cradle of Humankind in East Africa
12. Mai 2020 · Two new studies Monday show that Homo sapiens bones found in the Bulgarian cave date back to as far as 46,000 years ago, which is thousands of years earlier than previous human fossils in...
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- "A huge surprise"
Pioneering groups of humans braved icy conditions to settle in northern Europe more than 45,000 years ago, a "huge surprise" that means they could have lived there alongside Neanderthals, scientists said Wednesday.
The international team of researchers found human bones and tools hiding behind a massive rock in a German cave, the oldest traces of Homo sapiens ever discovered so far north.
The discovery could rewrite the history of how the species populated Europe -- and how it came to replace the Neanderthals, who mysteriously went extinct just a few thousand years after humans arrived.
When the two co-existed in Europe, there was a "replacement phenomenon" between the Middle Paleolithic and the Upper Paleolithic periods, French paleoanthropologist Jean-Jacques Hublin, who led the new research, told AFP.
Archaeological evidence such as stone tools from both species has been discovered dating from this period -- but determining exactly who created what has proved difficult because of a lack of bones.
Particularly puzzling have been tools from what has been called the "Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician" (LRJ) culture found at several sites north of the Alps, including in England and Poland.
The team used a new technique called paleoproteomics, which involves extracting proteins from fossils, to determine which bones were from animals and which from humans.
Using radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis, they confirmed that the cave contained the skeletal remains of 13 humans.
That means that the stone tools in the cave -- which were once thought to have been made by Neanderthals -- were in fact crafted by humans as early as 47,500 years ago.
"This came as a huge surprise, as no human fossils were known from the LRJ before, and was a reward for the hard work at the site," said study co-author Marcel Weiss.
The fossils date from around the time when the first Homo sapiens were leaving Africa for Europe and Asia.
"For a long time we have thought of a great wave of Homo sapiens that swept across Europe and rapidly absorbed the Neanderthals towards the end of these transitional cultures around 40,000 years ago," Hublin said.
But Apidima 1 was dated to 210,000 years ago, making it by far the oldest Homo sapiens fossil found on the continent. “I couldn’t believe it at first,” Harvati tells Yong, “but all the analyses...
7. Juni 2017 · At an archaeological site near the Atlantic coast, finds of skull, face and jaw bones identified as being from early members of our species have been dated to about 315,000 years ago.
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13. Jan. 2022 · Some of the oldest human remains ever unearthed are the Omo One bones found in Ethiopia. For decades, their precise age has been debated, but a new study argues they're around 233,000 years old.
11. Mai 2020 · The oldest bones of Homo sapiens ever found in Europe have been discovered in a Bulgarian cave, providing the earliest known evidence of our species' emergence in the European continent, according to new research.
