Research led by Institut de Paléontologie Humaine is providing a finite minimum age for a nearly complete cranium from Petralona Cave in Greece that has perplexed researchers since its discovery in ...
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Mystery at Petralona Cave: 286,000-year-old skull near Thessaloniki upends the human family tree
A skull found in the Petralona Cave near Thessaloniki, Greece, that has kept researchers guessing for decades, has been dated as circa 300,000 years old and classified as neither early human nor ...
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A nearly complete skull found in a Greek cave has spent more than six decades in scientific limbo. Now, a fresh dating study says the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it deep ...
Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...
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