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Article: Romanian jawbone puts face to Europe's earliest modern humans.
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- St. Louis Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, MO)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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Byline: Tina Hesman
Some bones discovered in a cave in Romania are putting a face to the oldest modern humans in Europe.
The fossils _ a jawbone, part of the front of a skull and a temporal bone _ also may give more support to the theory that early Europeans bred with Neanderthals, says Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at Washington University.
Spelunkers first discovered the jawbone in a remote limestone cave in the Carpathian Mountains in February of 2002. The cavers gave the jaw, which still bears five of its back teeth, to cave biologist Oana Moldovan, who then contacted Trinkaus.
Trinkaus and Moldovan met in Budapest, Hungary, a ...