US Edition7,500-Year-Old "Neanderthal-Human Hybrid" Skull Turns Out To Be Something Different
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The Human That Doesn’t Fit the Family Tree: Skull Challenges Human Evolution in Europe
Frontal bone from Hahnöfersand. Credit: Archaeological Museum Hamburg / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE A skull unearthed from a German river more than 50 years ago has long puzzled scientists trying to fit it into the human family tree. New research settles the debate. The frontal bone from Hahnöfersand, Germany, belongs to a modern human who lived around 7,500 years ago, not a Neanderthal hybrid from the distant past. A study published in …
For almost half a century a fragment of human skull found on the banks of the Elbe River, near the German town of Hahnöfersand, has been the protagonist of an intense scientific debate. Discovered in March 1973 during the construction of a dam, this well-preserved frontal bone without a safe archaeological context was initially dated [...]
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