University of Pennsylvania: Cave Discovery Holds Clues to Earliest Homo Sapiens in Europe
June 25, 2020
June 25, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 25 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news:
Ancient DNA from 46,000-year-old bone fragments and a tooth reveals this group likely overlapped with Neanderthals for thousands of years.
In a cave in Bulgaria, Penn Museum researcher Zeljko Rezek and colleagues discovered the oldest known unequivocally defined remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, dating back nearly 46,000 years. That's about 5,000 years older than the previo . . .
Ancient DNA from 46,000-year-old bone fragments and a tooth reveals this group likely overlapped with Neanderthals for thousands of years.
In a cave in Bulgaria, Penn Museum researcher Zeljko Rezek and colleagues discovered the oldest known unequivocally defined remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, dating back nearly 46,000 years. That's about 5,000 years older than the previo . . .