Tuesday,
November 07, 2006
Italians were First Europeans, not
Spaniards
The
ANNOTICO Report
It
was previously thought that the first Europeans were from
Now
it is announced at a major prehistoric science conference in
That
also means that Europe was populated from a
migration from the Mid East, rather than
FIRST EUROPEANS LIVED IN
Italian scientists date
ANSA -
November 7, 2006
The first Europeans lived in southern
A collection
of fossilised flint tools and other sharp instruments
found in the south-eastern region of
The discovery
was announced at a major prehistoric science conference in
The evidence
means palaeontologists will have to redraw the maps
charting the path of ancient man out of Africa, say a team from four Italian
universities,
"This
discovery reopens the debate on the origin of the population of the whole of
Europe," said Carmelo Petronio of
"It
supports the theory that the first Europeans migrated westwards across the Near
East and not from north-western
Petronio said a precursor of
modern man calle d! Homo ergaster
"headed (from Africa) for
"But one
group traveled to the Caucasus, before it evolved, and probably continued to
migrate from there as far as southern
The tools
found in
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