Post by L Roebuck on Mar 27, 2008 6:17:01 GMT -5
Earliest European Remains Found in Spanish Cave, Study Says
By Ryan Flinn
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- More than a million years ago in a Spanish cave, a human ancestor hammered away at a carcass with a crude stone tool. The remains of that scene suggest Europe was populated earlier than scientists believed, a new study shows.
The discovery is unique because of the breadth of evidence at the site, Sima del Elefante in northern Spain, according to the study to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature. Earlier finds may have yielded stone tools, or animal remains that showed human involvement, or hominid fossils, though rarely all three.
The site ``thus emerges as the oldest, most accurately dated record of human occupation in Europe,'' the study said.
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By Ryan Flinn
March 26 (Bloomberg) -- More than a million years ago in a Spanish cave, a human ancestor hammered away at a carcass with a crude stone tool. The remains of that scene suggest Europe was populated earlier than scientists believed, a new study shows.
The discovery is unique because of the breadth of evidence at the site, Sima del Elefante in northern Spain, according to the study to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature. Earlier finds may have yielded stone tools, or animal remains that showed human involvement, or hominid fossils, though rarely all three.
The site ``thus emerges as the oldest, most accurately dated record of human occupation in Europe,'' the study said.
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