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Earliest Modern Humans In Europe

A child's tooth found in Grotte Mandrin, Rhône Valley in southern France, is 54,000 years old and pushes our understanding of early modern humans and intermixing between Neanderthals

Feb 11, 2022
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A new paper in Science Advances1 documents the discoveries from Grotte Mandrin, in the Rhône Valley in southern France. Nine teeth and hundreds of stone tools have been excavated. These teeth represent seven individuals; one of which comes from a child and is taxonomically a Homo sapiens that dates between 56,800 to 51,700 years ago. The eight other teet…

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