Pioneering groups of humans braved icy conditions to settle in northern Europe more than 45,000 years ago, a "huge surprise" that means they could have lived there alongside Neanderthals, scientists said Wednesday.- A cold change -
This means there was even more time for modern humans to have lived side-by-side with their Neanderthal cousins, the last of whom died out in Europe's southwest 40,000 years ago.
Dr. Berhane Asfaw's excavation in Ethiopia's Afar Triangle unveiled the Herto Man, challenging the human evolution narrative through 160,000-year-old fossils.