2024-01-31 18:58:47
The Ranis Cave, hidden below a medieval castle, housed the missing pieces that complete the puzzle of European occupation more than 45,000 years ago. Tim Schüler TLDA, License: CC-BY-ND 4.0
NARRATIVE – 47,000 years ago, pioneer groups of Homo sapiens rapidly developed in the north of the continent, while Neanderthals still occupied the south.
The cave is hidden below a medieval castle in the heart of the German town of Ranis. The bucolic setting has been known for nearly a century by archaeologists and prehistorians. It benefited from a first excavation campaign in the 1930s, marked by the discovery of numerous prehistoric tools. But this site had not yet revealed its full potential.
Human remains have just been identified there, confirming in turn that different groups ofA wise man occupied a vast area north of the Alps more than 47,000 years ago. The results of these new excavations, carried out by the paleoanthropologist and professor at the Collège de France Jean-Jacques Hublin, are presented in three articles published in the journals Nature et Nature Ecology & Evolution . They constitute an essential piece in the puzzle of the history of our ancestors and of this decisive period when two different humanities, Neanderthals and Sapiens, rubbed shoulders in Europe…
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