JHS: anthropologists have established the age of the skull found in 1960
Scientists have managed to establish the age of a skull with a horn on its forehead, found in Greece in 1960, according to a study for the Journal of Human Evolution.
“Determining the age of the almost complete skull found in the Petralona cave in Greece is extremely important, as this fossil plays a key role in human evolution in Europe,” the text says.
Anthropologists have managed to establish that the age of the fossil is at least 300 thousand years old. A local resident found Petralona’s skull rooted to the cave wall back in 1960. In addition, there was a characteristic horn-shaped tip sticking out from above, which turned out to be a stalagmite formed over hundreds of thousands of years.
Experts came to the conclusion that it was the thousand-year-old outgrowth that became the only key to determining the true age of the historical fossil.
The owner of this skull probably lived in Europe next to the Neanderthals, but belonged to another group of ancient people — Homo heidelbergensis, which was even more primitive. However, it has not yet been possible to establish this fact accurately, the authors of the article admit.
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