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Discovery of bones and tools in German cave could rewrite history of humans and Neanderthals: "Huge surprise"


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Pioneering groups of humans braved icy conditions to settle in northern Europe more than 45,000 years ago, a "huge surprise" that means they could have lived there alongside Neanderthals, scientists said Wednesday.

The international team of researchers found human bones and tools hiding behind a massive rock in a German cave, the oldest traces of Homo sapiens ever discovered so far north.

The discovery could rewrite the history of how the species populated Europe -- and how it came to replace the Neanderthals, who mysteriously went extinct just a few thousand years after humans arrived.

 

~ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bones-tools-cave-could-rewrite-history-humans-neanderthals-europe/

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