Homo sapiens ventured into Neanderthal territory in Europe much earlier than previously thought, according to an archaeological study published in Science magazine on Wednesday.
disappeared from the European continent about 40,000 years ago, shortly after the arrival of their"cousin", barely 5,000 years earlier, and there was no evidence of an encounter between these two groups.
"Mandrin is like a kind of neandertalian Pompeii, without catastrophic events, but with continuous filling of sands in the cave deposited progressively by a strong wind, the Mistral," Slimak told AFP. That"fossil molar from a modern human child provides the earliest known evidence of modern humans in western Europe", the Natural History Museum in London said in a statement.The archaeological team then used a pioneering technique, fuliginochronology, which analyses layers of soot impregnating the walls of a cave and the traces of ancient fires.
At some point, the two populations either co-existed in the cave or on the same territory, the researcher concluded.to lead him to the best sources of flint available, some of which were located up to 90 kilometers .
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