Mysterious 300,000-Year-Old Greek Cave Skull Was neither Human nor Neanderthal, Study Finds

Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil belonged to an ancient human group that lived alongside Neanderthals.

Archaeologists discover mystery skull dating back 286,000 years ‘that’s not human’ - The Zambian Observer

Scientists might be one step closer to solving one of the longest standing mysteries in human evolution, thanks to the discovery of a mysterious non-human skull. Initially found in a cave in northern Greece back in 1960, the complete skull baffled archaeologists, who couldn’t work out how old it was or who it even belonged […] The post Archaeologists discover mystery skull dating back 286,000 years ‘that’s not human’ first appeared on The Zambia…

Enigma Of Skull From Petralona Cave In Greece Is Solved And Changes The Human Evolution's History - Ancient Pages

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - For over fifty years, a significant enigma in the field of paleoanthropology has persisted. An almost complete cranium discovered in the Petralona, a Greek cave has puzzled scientists for decades, as they have struggled to accurately determine he artifact's age orwhat place it had within the human evolutionary lineage. The […]