Latest Research Shows First Known Homo Sapiens was Greek
aristarchus writes:
A partial skull found in Greece is the earliest evidence of the presence of Homo sapiens outside of Africa, scientists have reported in this week's International Journal of Science, Nature.
The team of researchers dated the skull to about 210,000 years old, which makes the skull about 150,000 years older than the oldest fossil of Homo sapiens found in Europe and the third-oldest known example of modern humanity.
A second skull found in the same location was estimated to be at least 170,000 years old belonging to Neanderthals, a species widespread in Europe until 40,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens took over.
The two skulls (named Apidima 1 and 2) were found together in the late 1970's in the Apidima Cave which is located in the Peloponnese in southern Greece.
All things human are Greek in origin. Deal.
Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia[$] (DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z)
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