Neanderthals and Sapiens do not meet at Vindia Cave, Croatia

According to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vindia cave in northern Croatia has traditionally been considered one of the most likely places for Neanderthals and modern humans. meet and mate with each other.

It is thought that there is a mixed marriage between them, whereby our genome is inherited partly from Neanderthals. But now, a more accurate carbon dating date makes scientists suspect this.

Vindia cave in northern Croatia.

The relics of the Neanderthals in the cave Vindia were found in 1974 under the guidance of paleontologist and geologist Mirko Malez (1924-1990). The oldest deposits of deposits in the cave (G3 and G1) contain only the bones of the Neanderthals, in Class F contain the bones of Neanderthals and Sapiens, and in many layers of sediments formed later only full of human bones. Sapiens.

Recent carbon radioactivity tests show that, contrary to current notions, Neanderthals and modern people have not met, because they do not coincide with time. Sapiens appeared in Vindia cave only about 8000 years after the Neanderhal people there disappeared.

A more accurate method of identification is applied by archaeologists under the guidance of Thibaut Devièse and Thomas Higham, which is the choice of inspection materials . If the concentration of carbon-14 in bone collagen was previously determined to be easily contaminated with the environment and other external influences, scientists now use hydroxyproline - only a specific amino acid. for collagen. Measuring carbon-14 concentrations in a separate amino acid makes it possible for scientists to eliminate the impact of environmental pollution.

Archaeologist Thibault Devièse asserts that the obvious genetic data confirm that Neanderthals and modern people met and mated, but that did not happen in the Vindia cave area on the side. Northern Croatia, which is somewhere else.