Archaeologists uncover Neanderthal stays in caves close to Rome By Reuters
© Reuters. Fossilised stays, imagined to belong to Neanderthal males, are seen at a prehistoric website in Guattari collapse San Felice Circeo, Italy, 2021. Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Actions and Tourism/ Handout by way of REUTERS
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MILAN (Reuters) – Archaeologists found the stays of 9 Neanderthals at a prehistoric website close to Rome, Italy’s Tradition ministry mentioned on Saturday.
Eight of the stays are dated to between 50,000 and 68,000 years in the past, whereas one, the oldest, is dated to between 90,000 and 100,000 years in the past, the ministry mentioned in a press release.
The discover occurred in Grotta Guattari, prehistoric caves found greater than 80 years in the past, positioned round 100 metres from the coast of Tyrrhenian Sea in San Felice Circeo, close to Latina, within the Lazio area.
Video footage from the ministry confirmed bones, craniums and different physique components discovered on the website.
Neanderthals, the closest historical kin of people, died out about 40,000 years in the past. It’s unclear what killed them off, though theories embrace an lack of ability to adapt to local weather change and elevated competitors from trendy people.
Taking into consideration different stays discovered beforehand on the identical website, there are in complete 11 people current in Grotta Guattari, which is “confirmed as one of the crucial vital locations on the planet for the historical past of Neanderthal man,” the ministry mentioned.
“They’re all grownup people, aside from one who might have been in his early teenagers,” Francesco Di Mario, head of the Grotta Guattari excavation, mentioned within the assertion.
Animal stays have additionally been discovered, together with the aurochs, a big extinct bovine.
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