Animal remains have additionally been discovered, together with the aurochs, a big extinct bovine.
Archaeologists found the remains of 9 Neanderthals at a prehistoric website near Rome, Italy’s Culture ministry stated on Saturday.
Eight of the remains are dated to between 50,000 and 68,000 years in the past, whereas one, the oldest, is dated to between 90,000 and 100,000 years in the past, the ministry stated in an announcement.
The discover occurred in Grotta Guattari, prehistoric caves found greater than 80 years in the past, situated round 100 metres from the coast of Tyrrhenian Sea in San Felice Circeo, near Latina, in the Lazio area.
Video footage from the ministry confirmed bones, craniums and different physique components discovered on the website.
Neanderthals, the closest historic family members of people, died out about 40,000 years in the past. It is unclear what killed them off, though theories embrace an incapability to adapt to local weather change and elevated competitors from trendy people.
This picture launched by the Italian Culture Ministry reveals a cave near Rome the place fossil findings have been found, shedding new gentle on how the Italian peninsula was populated and underneath what environmental situations.
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Taking under consideration different remains discovered beforehand on the similar website, there are in complete 11 people current in Grotta Guattari, which is “confirmed as one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthal man,” the ministry stated. “They are all adult individuals, except for one who may have been in his early teens,” Francesco Di Mario, head of the Grotta Guattari excavation, stated in the assertion.
Animal remains have additionally been discovered, together with the aurochs, a big extinct bovine.
