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Jaw-dropping find emerges from Stone Age cave

By Bruce Bower

- More than 2 years ago

From Tempe, Arizona, at a meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society

A TELLING JAW. This Homo sapiens lower jaw, found on the floor of a Romanian cave, dates to about 35,000 years ago. Trinkaus/Romanian Academy

Researchers exploring a Romanian cave system in March 2002 got a prehistoric surprise. The scientists, directed by Oana Moldovan of the Romanian Academy in Cluj, swam through an underwater passageway and entered a largely dry, limestone chamber.