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Mysterious Skeleton of Child With Human and Neanderthal Traits Has Finally Been Dated by Archaeologists
In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley. When the team took a closer ...
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Breakthrough Radiocarbon Analysis Sheds Light on Mysterious Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Remains
Scientists have successfully dated the remains of the Lapedo Child, which possesses a "mosaic" of Human and Neanderthal ...
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Who were the Red Deer Cave people? Humans' forgotten ancestors
There’s a good chance it’s the Red Deer Cave people ... at that time found that the remains more closely resembled long extinct human ancestors than modern day humans. Analysis also showed ...
Age of Famous Neanderthal Hybrid Child Pinpointed With Breakthrough Method
The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...
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Scientists pinpoint age of suspected human-Neanderthal hybrid child
Researchers also used hydroxyporline dating on some of the burial site’s animal bone samples that included rabbit, horse, and red deer. While this latest chapter in the Lapedo Child’s saga ...