Separate European origins evidence from Spain
Channel: Eric Dondero, Right-Anthro & Human Origins
Date: 2023-05-26

A jawbone discovered in Spain in the 1880s, has been redated and reanalyzed.  It was uncovered in a cave near the Catalonian town of Banyoles.  They believed for the longest time it was a simple Neanderthal specimen.  A joint team from Spain together with paleoanthropologists from the University of Binghamton, New York, believe they've solved the mystery.  An early Homo sapien?  

Dated to 60,000 years ago, that would make it the oldest Homo sapien on the European continent.  That presents a great challenge to recent Out of Africa.  Did modern Euros, descendants of Cro-magnon stretch back to Homo antecessor in Europe 1.2 million years ago?