Did I not write a short while back that we might be in for more surprises regarding human history?
(NESPOS)
ROME,
ITALY—Radioactive deposits in sediments taken from the inside of two
Neanderthal skulls discovered in a gravel pit in central Italy in the
early twentieth century have been re-dated by a team made up of
researchers from Sapienza University, the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, and the Italian Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology
(INGV).
“The results of our studies show that the Saccopastore remains
are 100,000 years older than previously thought—and push back the
arrival of Neanderthal man in Italy to 250,000 years ago,” Fabrizio
Marra of INGV told The Local, Italy.
This is about the same time that Neanderthals are believed to have
arrived in central Europe. The new dates are also in line with the age
of 11 stone artifacts that had been discovered with the fossils. To read
more in-depth about Paleolithic Europe, go to "Structural Integrity."
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