According to the authors, the skull and its associated materials speak to “the origin of the Neanderthals and the pattern of human evolution” in Europe during that prehistoric period.
Neanderthals are thought to have emerged a few hundred thousand years ago and were eventually replaced by modern humans.
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Binghamton University, which had an anthropologist on the international team that made the discovery, said in a statement that the newly uncovered cranium is strongly tagged to 400,000 years ago, which sets it apart from other similar fossils that “are poorly dated or lack a clear archaeological context.”
This fossil, dubbed the Aroeira 3 cranium, was found in Portugal and tells scientists more about how Neanderthals, the predecessors of modern humans, evolved in Europe.
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