Re: Most recent Neandertals

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Bob Keeter <b_keeter@owens.ridgecrest.ca.is> writes:
>jimf@vangelis.co.symbios.com (Jim Foley) wrote:
>>
>>I thought I had read about some Neandertal fossils from Croatia which
>>had recently been dated at around 30,000 years or even less, but I can't
>>find any references to it now. Does anyone know which fossils I might
>>be thinking of, or have any references?
>>
>
>Was this Croatia, or Spain? I had heard of some very recent <35k yrs old
>Neanderthal remains, but I thought that they were located near Gibraltar in
>Spain.
Both. Reported in August 1995. remains in Croatia dated 33K years ago,
Spain 30K years ago. My newspaper clipping says to see the Sept/Oct 1995
issue of Archaeology.

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