>A skull unearthed in Greece has been dated to 210,000 years ago, at a time when Europe was occupied by the Neanderthals.
>The sensational discovery adds to evidence of an earlier migration of people from Africa that left no trace in the DNA of people alive today.
>The findings are published in the journal Nature.
>Researchers uncovered two significant fossils in Apidima Cave in Greece in the 1970s.
>One was very distorted and the other incomplete, however, and it took computed tomography scanning and uranium-series dating to unravel their secrets.
>The more complete skull appears to be a Neanderthal. But the other shows clear characteristics, such as a rounded back to the skull, diagnostic of modern humans.
>The sensational discovery adds to evidence of an earlier migration of people from Africa that left no trace in the DNA of people alive today.
>The findings are published in the journal Nature.
>Researchers uncovered two significant fossils in Apidima Cave in Greece in the 1970s.
>One was very distorted and the other incomplete, however, and it took computed tomography scanning and uranium-series dating to unravel their secrets.
>The more complete skull appears to be a Neanderthal. But the other shows clear characteristics, such as a rounded back to the skull, diagnostic of modern humans.