Modern Humans Reached Westernmost Europe 5,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known
Modern Humans Reached Westernmost Europe 5,000 Years Earlier Than Previously Known View of the excavation of the early modern human (foreground) and Neanderthal layers (background) in Lapa do Picareiro. Photo by Jonathan Haws Modern humans lived in the westernmost part of Europe 41,000 – 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously…