Researchers provide evidence: Humans lived 200,000 years earlier in Europe than thought
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At Korolewo in western Ukraine a paleontological/archaeological site discovered in 1974 has yielded a layer of stone tools. Analysis reported by a research team in Nature indicates that these stone tools date to approximately 1.42 million years ago, implying that early humans were present in Europe about 1.4 million years ago—some 200,000 years earlier than the previously oldest dated European sites (~1.1–1.2 Ma in Atapuerca, Spain, and the Vallonet cave in southern France). The study used cosmogenic nuclide dating (beryllium-10 and aluminium-26 ratios in quartz-bearing deposits) to estimate an age of ~1.42 Ma for the relevant layer. The tools are attributed by the reporting researchers to early hominins (assigned to Homo erectus), and the spatial/temporal pattern of finds could indicate an east-to-west dispersal into Europe (possibly via the Levant, the Caucasus or Anatolia).
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