A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory

The bone, found in a cave, is the oldest modern human fossil ever discovered in Europe. It hints that humans began leaving Africa far earlier than once thought.

Modern humans may have been in Europe 150,000 years earlier than thought

A Skull Bone Discovered In Greece May Alter The Story Of Human Prehistory

Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

Rewriting history: 210,000-year-old skull found in Greece identified as ‘oldest human fossil’ outside Africa

Discovery suggests mankind may have arrived in Europe more than 150,000 years earlier than scientists previously estimated
Findings support idea that Homo sapiens made several, sometimes unsuccessful migrations from Africa over tens of thousands of years