The ancient skull was found along this Greek coastline Benny Marty/Alamy
HOMO SAPIENS lived in Greece 210,000 years ago. The finding rewrites human prehistory, suggesting our ancestors migrated out of Africa – and reached Europe – earlier than we thought.
The evidence comes from Apidima cave in southern Greece. Two hominin skulls, both missing their lower jaws, were discovered in the cave in the 1970s. They were thought to be from Neanderthals, who lived in Europe long before modern humans arrived.
Katerina Harvati at the University of Tubingen in Germany and her colleagues have…
Article amended on 16 July 2019
We corrected the spelling of "Greek" in the first picture caption.
