Balkan caves, gorges were pre-Neanderthal haven

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:06 PM EDT

Article Source: Reuters

A fragment of a human jaw found in Serbia and believed to be up to 250,000 years old is helping anthropologists piece together the story of prehistoric human migration from Africa to Europe.
"This is the earliest evidence we have of humans in the area," Canada's Winnipeg University anthropology professor Mirjana Roksandic told Reuters.

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Synthesis

During the periodic ice ages northern Europe would have been covered in ice, so the theory is these early humans stayed in the easier climate of southern Europe.

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#1 - Sun Jun 29, 2008 10:07 PM EDT

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gladbutterfly

80,000 years in one cave. The stories those walls could tell, if we knew how to hear them. It must have been a prime piece of real estate to be inhabited for that long a period of time. Wow.

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#2 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:13 PM EDT

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Synthesis

It was the wet bar...

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#2.1 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:49 PM EDT

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What we found there was enough to reconstruct the way of living, changes in culture, climate, vegetation and animal life during a longer period of some 50,000 years," Mihailovic said.

So the cave was inhabited off and on for 50 k years?

on a non-related note: What the hell is up with the 'related articles'? They all came from Reuters but so what?

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#3 - Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:22 PM EDT

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