Tag: Grotte Mandrin

  • Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows

    Europe’s first humans hunted with bows and arrows

    Neanderthal teeth, genetic material and stone tools have been found beneath Grotte Mandrin’s layer E, a cave site in southern France. The team said that layer E refers to an incursion of Homo sapiens into Neanderthal territory at least 10,000 years earlier before the species settled in Europe. The artefacts include hundreds of tiny points…