Major Archaeological Discovery: Oldest Human Traces in Europe Found in Romania
A thesis that was launched in the 1960s by one of the pioneers of Romanian prehistoric archaeology, Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor, which spoke of the presence of homini about 2 million years old on Romanian territory, has not only returned to the forefront after it seemed to have fallen into disuse, but has also been confirmed by an international team of researchers in a study recently published in the journal Nature Communications.
Specialists from research centers in Romania, the USA, Great Britain, Australia, Sweden and the Republic of Moldova have reanalyzed the faunal elements discovered during archaeological excavations that took place in the early 1960s at the site at Valea lui Grăunceanu – Bugiulești, Vâlcea County, and dated them using the uranium-lead method, one of the most efficient radiometric dating methods used for objects older than a million years.
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