Better Carbon Dating Revises Some History

by Staff Writers London, UK (UPI) Feb 23, 2006 Advances in radiocarbon dating are leading scientists to revise estimates of when early modern humans arrived in Europe. Refinements in the paleontological tool have substantially narrowed the estimated overlap between Europe's earliest modern humans and the Neanderthals that preceded them, the journal Nature reported Thursday.

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What about the so called pre-Neanderthals, which are actually Sapiens? They are dated as soon as 60,000 BCE in SW Europe, using some specific facies of Mousterian and probably being the ones that developed Chatelperronian, which would evolve into Gravettian culture.

Originally posted by Maju What about the so called pre-Neanderthals, which are actually Sapiens? They are dated as soon as 60,000 BCE in SW Europe, using some specific facies of Mousterian and probably being the ones that developed Chatelperronian, which would evolve into Gravettian culture.

I've never heard of 60,000 BCE Moderns in Europe, or anywhere else outside of Africa. Can you provide a source for this as well as for Gravettian culture stemming from Chatelperronian?

Also, Chatelperronian is younger than Aurignacian and also a neanderthal skeleton was found with it in the 90's, so it seems like a neanderthal adoption of Modern technology.