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An international team of archaeologists exploring the Bacho Kiro (Бачо Киро) cave in Bulgaria since 2015 determined that a molar (tooth) the found is dated to about 44,000-46,000 years old.
Article in Nature - Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2259-z
An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania
https://www.pnas.org/content/100/20/11231
Bacho Kiro is about halfway between Sofiya and Varna in the Balkan Mountains near the town of Veliko Tarnovo (Велико Търново). It is north of Kazanluk (Казанлък) and Stara Zagora (Стара Загора). The area has a rich archeological history.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/sci...ed-europe-earlier-previously-thought-n1204401“This is much older than anything else that we have found so far from modern humans in Europe,” said Jean-Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at Leipzig in Germany, who led the team.
Evidence from other sites suggests the people at Bacho Kiro cave were part of a “pioneer” wave of Homo sapiens that entered southern and central Europe up to 47,000 years ago from southwest Asia, Hublin said.
Before this, the oldest confirmed find of Homo sapiens remains in Europe were from Peştera cu Oase in Romania, and dated to around 41,000 years ago.
Article in Nature - Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2259-z
An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania
https://www.pnas.org/content/100/20/11231
Bacho Kiro is about halfway between Sofiya and Varna in the Balkan Mountains near the town of Veliko Tarnovo (Велико Търново). It is north of Kazanluk (Казанлък) and Stara Zagora (Стара Загора). The area has a rich archeological history.
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