Discovered in Portugal in 1998, the individual dubbed the “Lapedo Child” has long perplexed scientists, thanks to a curious ...
Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most ...
The new date for the child is consistent with original estimates for the age of the burial, but it has changed our ...
Learn about the Lapedo child, an ancient human with Neanderthal features who was buried at a rock shelter in Portugal between ...
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The new approach to radiocarbon dating could soon be applied to other Paleolithic human sites, improving our understanding of ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered ...
The child's skeleton was discovered in 1998 in the Lagar Velho rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley of central Portugal. When paleoanthropologists removed the bones from the dirt, they immediately ...
An international team of researchers has successfully directly dated the remains of the so-called Lapedo Child, an infant ...
The nearly complete skeleton of the ‘Lapedo child' was discovered 27 years ago in a rock shelter called Lagar Velho in central Portugal. It was stained red, and scientists think it may have been ...
The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...
(photo credit: João Zilhão and Cidália Duarte) Radiocarbon dating using a new method has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the Lapedo Child, a prehistoric skeleton exhibiting ...