Since when was Europe populated?
If we stick to the strict definition of our species,
Homo sapiens
has been around since around 48,000 years ago.
But before that Europe was already occupied by other forms of humanity.
Human groups, all extinct, but who have left fleeting traces in our soil.
New analyzes carried out by the team of Roman Garba, archaeologist and member of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, and published in the journal
Nature
,
return to the dating of occupation levels with tools discovered in the 1970s in western Ukraine, on the Korolevo site.
More than 1.4 million years old, it is, according to the authors, the oldest evidence of human presence on the continent.
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Already known to scientists, the Korolevo site had revealed around thirty stone tools in the oldest levels, almost fifty years ago.
Tools that are similar to what we find in…
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