[SunkenCiv]

Dates Obtained for Italy's Altamura Man -- Friday, April 03, 2015 -- A tiny piece of shoulder bone and stalactite fragments collected from Altamura Man have been tested by researchers led by Giorgio Manzi of the Sapienza University of Rome. The remains, discovered in 1993 by cave explorers, are embedded in the rock and have not been removed from the cave. Only the head and part of a shoulder are visible, and were thought to represent an archaic Neanderthal, which lived in Europe between 200,000 and 40,000 years ago. The new test results, publicized in Phys.org, support the identification of the individual as a Neanderthal who may have fallen in a well and gotten stuck. Uranium-thorium dating revealed that the calcite in the stalactite fragments was formed 172,000 to 130,000 years ago. DNA from the bone sample is thus the oldest ever recovered from Neanderthal remains. The next step is to try to sequence the DNA sample.

[1010RD]

Imagine being the explorers who discovered this. It must have been a real freak out for them.

Thanks for all you do and have a great Easter.

[Red Badger]

[martin_fierro]

[Patriot777]

Once they sequence the DNA they will find that ol’ “Neanderthal” man doesn’t exist, and he ain’t that old...

But will they truthfully publish their findings?

[Reynoldo]

He had healthy-looking teeth.