The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...
Cidália Duarte In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo Valley. When the team took a closer look at the ochre-stained bones, they were surprised ...
The child's skeleton was discovered in 1998 in the Lagar Velho rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley of central Portugal. When paleoanthropologists removed the bones from the dirt, they immediately ...
The Lapedo Child—so-named for the valley in Portugal in which it was found—was discovered in 1998, when students chanced upon the rock shelter that contained the remains. Excavations revealed ...
(photo credit: João Zilhão and Cidália Duarte) Radiocarbon dating using a new method has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the Lapedo Child, a prehistoric skeleton exhibiting ...
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