Ancient Hominin Skull Dating Rewrites Prehistoric Human History
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A nearly complete hominin skull found in Greece in 1960 has been dated to at least 286,000 years old using uranium-series dating, providing new insights into European human evolution and suggesting it coexisted with early Neanderthals during the Middle Pleistocene.
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