The famous Homo sapiens from Combe Capelle was for a long time considered to be a Paleolithic Cro-Magnon man and one of the oldest findings of modern humans in Europe. However, in 2011 collagen from a tooth of the skull in Berlin was dated with accelerator mass spectrometry to an age of only 7575 BCE. Consequently, it was clearly a man of the Epipaleolithic (Holocene).
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- The skull of Combe Capelle. Can be read here.
- Combe Capelle redated. Can be read here.
- The Middle Paleolithic Site of Combe-Capelle Bas (France). Can be viewed here.