BBC Focus Magazine

[M Paul Lloyd]

Teeth and jaw are from 'earliest Europeans'
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

Worn ancient teeth and a jaw fragment unearthed in the UK and Italy have something revealing to say about how modern humans conquered the globe.
The finds in Kents Cavern, Devon, and Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, have been confirmed as the earliest known remains of Homo sapiens in Europe.
Careful dating suggests they are more than 41,000 years old, and perhaps as much as 45,000 years old in the case of the Italian "baby teeth".

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