At the end of June, the American anthropologist Erik Trinkaus delivered on Wednesday a conference at the Bucharest Anthropology Institute titled 'Oldest Homo Sapiens fossils in Europe found in Romania (the Bones cave),' dealing with the discovery in a Romanian cave of the earliest modern man fossil in Europe.
The discovery was made in 2002, in the Bone cave uncovered close to the town of Anina, Caras-Severin county, western Romania; this is where a human jaw bone, 34,000 - 40,000 years old, was found.
Since Romania had no precise dating instruments or internationally acknowledged labs, the jawbone was sent to American researcher Erik Trinkaus, professor at the Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Trinkaus analyzed the fragment in the worldwide acknowledged Oxford and Groningen labs, and the results were also published in the US. According to the findings of the American researcher, the jawbone proves the presence on the European continent of a Neanderthal connection to the fossil human who is known to have lived in Africa. In 2003, fragments of a human cranium that matched with the previously found jawbone were also found in the cave, and they were was proven to have belonged to a young hominid.
At Wednesday's conference, the anthropologist screened a rendering of the process that led him to the conclusion that the bone fragments discovered in the cave date since the period modern humans emerged as a species.
Trinkaus also mentioned the possibility that the exemplary found in Romania may have been the result of 'interbreeding' of a modern and a Neanderthal hominid, a theory not all researchers - and especially those who claim the Neanderthal man has too little contributed to the gene pool of modern man - accept.
Trinkaus said his research relied on Carbon-14 dating.
The fragments discovered in Romania are the earliest Homo Sapiens bones discovered in Europe, the world's second oldest fragments after th fossil discovered in Africa.
Whereas so far the oldest modern man bone fragment discovered in Europe was 25,000 years old, the Bone cave discovery sheds new light on the evolution of modern man.
The discovery was made in 2002, in the Bone cave uncovered close to the town of Anina, Caras-Severin county, western Romania; this is where a human jaw bone, 34,000 - 40,000 years old, was found.
Since Romania had no precise dating instruments or internationally acknowledged labs, the jawbone was sent to American researcher Erik Trinkaus, professor at the Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Trinkaus analyzed the fragment in the worldwide acknowledged Oxford and Groningen labs, and the results were also published in the US. According to the findings of the American researcher, the jawbone proves the presence on the European continent of a Neanderthal connection to the fossil human who is known to have lived in Africa. In 2003, fragments of a human cranium that matched with the previously found jawbone were also found in the cave, and they were was proven to have belonged to a young hominid.
At Wednesday's conference, the anthropologist screened a rendering of the process that led him to the conclusion that the bone fragments discovered in the cave date since the period modern humans emerged as a species.
Trinkaus also mentioned the possibility that the exemplary found in Romania may have been the result of 'interbreeding' of a modern and a Neanderthal hominid, a theory not all researchers - and especially those who claim the Neanderthal man has too little contributed to the gene pool of modern man - accept.
Trinkaus said his research relied on Carbon-14 dating.
The fragments discovered in Romania are the earliest Homo Sapiens bones discovered in Europe, the world's second oldest fragments after th fossil discovered in Africa.
Whereas so far the oldest modern man bone fragment discovered in Europe was 25,000 years old, the Bone cave discovery sheds new light on the evolution of modern man.
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