Bones from a Bulgarian cave suggest humans arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought, and coexisting much longer with Neanderthals.
Modern humans are a little more Neanderthal than we thought.
“We know that when they [humans] arrived, there were Neanderthals,” Hublin said. “The Danube Valley might have been a way for modern humans — by the way, at different periods — to move into this part of Europe.”This early batch of our species probably never made it west over the Alps, was likely only a few hundred people and may have died off, Hublin said. Modern Europeans descended from a second later wave of humans out of Africa, he said.
“How would they get into that cave on the side of that cliff unless humans brought parts of the animal, the body, into the cave?” she said.There’s also a large amount of bones from cave bears. These early Europeans made pendants out of cave bear bones, not other animals, showing an affinity for that animal, Hublin said.
Hublin theorized that the discovery indicates that Neanderthals, who until this time period hadn’t shown jewelry-making skills, learned how to
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