Two skulls found in a Grecian cave paint a surprising portrait of who lived there hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Finding both in the same cave illustrates that multiple early migrations out of Africa, rather than a single event, helped early humans spread, according to the researchers. Southeast Europe is considered to be one of those major migration corridors out of Africa.The study was published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. Both skulls were found in a block of breccia, or broken fragments of rock and fossil cemented together, wedged high between the walls of the Apidima Cave in southern Greece.
The oldest known fossils of early humans were found at Jebel Irhoud in Morocco, dating to 315,000 years ago. But the Jebel Irhoud fossils display more primitive features than Apidima 1. Oldest Homo sapiens fossils discoveredApidima 1 is now the oldest known European modern human fossil, 160,000 years older than previous discoveries. The researchers also used uranium-series dating to determine the ages of each skull, putting Apidima 1 at 210,000 years old and Apidima 2 at 170,000 years old.
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