Last Neanderthals discovered in Barents Region
Hundreds of stone tools found in the village of Byzovaya in the Komi Republics in the Urals could redraw the map of the last Neanderthals in Europe.
The tools recently discovered in the village match those made and used by many Neanderthals far further south. Neanderthals were living in Europe for some 200,000 years until modern humans moved in about some 45,000 years ago. Until now, the last Neanderthals were believed to live on the Iberian Peninsula where you today find Portugal and Spain.
The team of French researchers working together with Norwegian and Russian scientists in Byzovaya says mammoth and reindeer bones found at the site together with the stone tools are with the help of carbon 14 method dated to be 28,500 years old, more than 8,000 years younger than the latest Neanderthals on the Iberian Peninsula, reports National Geographic News.
