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Article: The telltale fires of the Qafzeh cave. (thermoluminescence dating shows modern man lived 92,000 years ago)
- Article from:
- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- February 29, 1988
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The cave, in the hills near Nazareth, was dark and damp, and the men huddled by fires lit with primitive flints. The Qafzeh cave dwellers were identified as modern men in the 1950S. Fresh evidence now shows when they lived: 92,000 years ago, 50,000 years earlier than most scholars had believed modern man existed. A French-Israeli research team has dated burnt flints found among the human bones via a controversial technique, thermoluminescence, that can detect when artifacts were last heated.
If correct, the discovery would turn longstanding ideas about human evolution topsy-turvy. Published in the British journal Nature last week, the finding places modern ...
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