Greece’s Petralona Cave Skull May Date Back 500,000 Years, New Study Suggests

Greek Reporter ^ | August 20, 2025 | Nisha Zahid

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The calcite crust on the cranium yielded a minimum age” — Decades ago, I used that technique on new girlfriends when they told me how old they were. I caught more than a few lying.

[Fungi]

Pure unadulterated crap.

[Openurmind]

This is substantial...

[jacknhoo]

“It shows marked differences from Neanderthals and modern humans, leaving researchers uncertain about where it fits in the evolutionary record.”

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Evolutionary record, hahaha. That’s what happens when you make up stories to fit a narrative.

[SunkenCiv]

[Jamestown1630]

Why?

[Candor7]

Waiting for a facial reconstruction. I bet he looks like Yogi Berra.

[Hyman Roth]

In before the earth is only 6,000 years old crowd

[Larry Lucido]

Yorick?

[BenLurkin]

"the Homo genus"

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] New Yorick New Yorick!

[BFW]

Does it look like a sock monkey?

[rexthecat]

Pure unadulterated crap.

It's science. Pay attention, you might learn something.

[SunkenCiv]

Wait a minute, are you trying mock Sunky?

[Red Badger]

[dfwgator]

Helen Thomas never looked better.

[Red Badger]

See #16......It actually looks more ‘monkey-ish’..............

[Red Badger]

It would be cool to get some DNA...................

[PIF]

How U-series dating works inside caves
U-series dating works by measuring how uranium isotopes decay into thorium. In cave environments, water seeping through soil carries uranium but leaves thorium behind. When the moisture evaporates, it forms calcite crusts rich in uranium but free of thorium.

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This method seems to suggest that a basic assumption is that the rate of water dripping into the cave remained constant over the entire 286,000 year period. Seems a bit of a stretch to say the least.