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Carbon dating has been recalibrated in recent decades to give archaeologists strong certainties about the ages of key artifacts for Europe's prehistory, from the drawings in France's Chauvet Cave (32,000 years old), to possibly Neanderthal milk teeth found in Cavallo, Italy (31,000 years old), to the...
Excerpt: "About 40,000 years ago, Europe's Neanderthal population was supplanted by our dear friend Homo sapiens, followed just tens of millennia later by the first European settlements on Crete. Then before you knew it, the Minoans, Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Vikings, Holy Romans, and Ottomans...
You reported the discovery that "at least some Neanderthals butchered, ate and disposed of their kin" [SCIENCE, Oct. 11]. Whether or not modern man acknowledges having some Neanderthal genes, there is ample evidence that cannibalism, a horror of history, has been widely practiced among many past populations and in the...
After the discovery of the first Neanderthal bones in the mid-19th century, these beetle-browed, chinless cave dwellers who lived from 125,000 to 35,000 years ago were dismissed as primitive apelike brutes. But contemporary science saw them in a better light. With brains as large as ours...
The evidence comes from a cave in the Ardeche region of southeastern France, overlooking the Rhone River, where archaeologist Alban Defleur of Marseilles' Universite de la Mediterranee discovered 78 Neanderthal bones about 100,000 years old. They were from at least six individuals--two adults, two teenagers and two six...