Fossil may expose humanity's hybrid roots

The 24,500-year-old skeleton of a young child, discovered in Portugal last November, may be evidence of prehistoric interbreeding between Neandertals and Homo sapiens.

References:

Trinkaus, E. 1999. Pathology and persistence in the Pavlovian: Paleopathology and mobility of Dolní Vestonice 15. Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society. April. Columbia, Ohio.

Zilhão, J. 1999. The last Neanderthals: Cultural variability and extinction. Meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society. April. Columbia, Ohio.

Sources:

Erik Trinkaus
Washington University
Department of Anthropology
Campus Box 1114
St. Louis, MO 63130

Joao Zilhão
Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia
Palacio da Ajuda
Ministerio da Cultura
P-1300 Lisbon
Portugal

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 19, May 8, 1999, p. 295. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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