Modern humans arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought - BBC News

New fossils are challenging ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals soon after arriving from Africa. A discovery of a child’s tooth and stone tools in a cave in southern France suggests Homo sapiens was in western Europe about 54,000 years ago. That is several thousands of years earlier than previously thought, indicating that the two species could have coexisted for long periods. The finds were discovered in a cave, known as Grotte Mandrin in the Rhone Valley, by a team led by Prof Ludovic Slimak of the University of Toulouse. He was astonished when he learned that there was evidence of an early modern human settlement. The research has been published in the journal Science Advances. Please subscribe HERE #BBCNews