Hominin skull discovered in 1960 finally gets an accurate age

Hominin skull discovered in 1960 finally gets an accurate age

Give or take 9,000 years.

Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old

A mystery in human evolution may be close to being solved, thanks to a new study by the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in France. A nearly complete cranium discovered in 1960 inside the Petralona Cave in northern Greece has defied all efforts at identification and precise dating for several decades. The new study, published in […]