New dating from a small cave on Croatia's Adriatic coast has pushed back the known human presence in the Dalmatia region by roughly 30,000 years, placing early toolmakers there during the depths of the last ice age and producing the oldest radiometric dates ever recorded at an archaeological site in the area.
Croatian Cave Pushes Back Human Presence in…
New dating from a small cave on Croatia's Adriatic coast has pushed back the known human presence in the Dalmatia region by roughly 30,000 years, placing early toolmakers there during the depths of the last ice age and producing the oldest radiometric dates ever recorded at an archaeological site in the area.