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Article: Middle Eastern hominids keep an early date. (study suggests that Neanderthals and modern humans lived at the same time in Middle East) (Brief Article)
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- Science News
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- May 22, 1993
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Age estimates based on a new analysis of fossil teeth found in three Israeli caves confirm reports that Neandertals and anatomically modern humans lived virtually side by side in the Middle East around 100,000 years ago, a team of scientists asserts in the May 20 NATURE.
The role played by Middle Eastern hominids (members of the human evolutionary family) in the emergence of modern humans remains controversial, however.
Modern humans inhabited the region first and lived near later-arriving Neandertals for at least 40,000 years, argue Frank McDermott, a geologist at University College in Dublin, Ireland, and his co-workers, who obtained the new dates from ...