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Petralona Cave

Cave in Chalkidiki, Greece, with a near-complete archaic human skull whose age is one of the most disputed in palaeoanthropology.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 284,000 years ago disputed
  New 2025 direct uranium-series dating of calcite on the cranium gives a minimum age of 286,000 years source
• about 698,000 years ago speculative
  The original estimate of about 700,000 years, now considered too old by most researchers source

Where

40.3697° N, 23.1592° E

Sources

• https://api.semanticscholar.org/graph/v1/paper/DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2025.103732?fields=title,abstract,year,venue
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petralona_Cave

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