The Lapedo Child has confounded scientists for nearly 30 years due to its combination of traits from both modern humans and Neanderthals, suggesting it was a hybrid individual.

Advanced radiocarbon dating has provided the most accurate age assessment yet for the “Lapedo Child,” one of the most provocative prehistoric human skeletons ever discovered. But the results ...

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 ...

The Lapedo Child—so-named for the valley in Portugal in which it was found—was discovered in 1998, when students chanced upon the rock shelter that contained the remains.

Scientists used fragments of the child's right forearm bone to date the skeletal remains. Cidália Duarte. In 1998, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a child in Portugal’s Lapedo ...

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 ...

The Lapedo Child was accidentally discovered in 1998 when archaeologists were exploring the area following the discovery of rock art in the region. The skeleton, belonging to a child between four and ...

Archaeologists have confirmed that the skeleton of the Lapedo child, named after its place of origin in Lapedo Valley, Portugal, is somewhere between 27,780 to 28,550 years old, according to new ...

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 ...

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, ...