Romanian fossils show hominins in Europe 500,000 years earlier than thought

PHYSorg
Jan 22, 2025, 2:44 pm141 pts
Research led by the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Ohio University has found evidence of hominin activity at a Romanian fossil site dating to at least 1.95 million years ago. This discovery pushes back the known date of European hominins by half a million years and establishes Grăunceanu as the…

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Romanian fossils show hominins in Europe 500,000 years earlier than thought

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