When did humans first arrive in Europe? New evidence

In a new study Ukraine I am a Archaeology The stone tools found at the site are known to be 1.4 million years old Europe It is the oldest evidence of human presence.

The research published in the scientific journal ‘Nature’ It traces the arrival of the first humans in Europe and where they came from.

This discovery also confirms the hypothesis that in Europe our Early human ancestors The first migration to Europe was from the east or southeast.

Early humans, the group that includes modern humans and our closest ancestors such as the Neanderthals, are thought to have arrived in the Eurasian region between 10 and 2 million years ago, but the exact timing of their arrival in Europe is uncertain. It is still difficult to find out information about

While modern humans emerged from Africa about 270,000 years ago, it is not known when our human ancestors entered Europe.

Researchers say that the main reason for this is the lack of discovery of archaeological sites of this period.

One such rare site, where large excavations have been carried out, is the Korolev region in western Ukraine, where Stone Age tools were discovered in the 1970s.

In the 1970s, researchers excavated broken rocks from the site that were molded from volcanic rocks.

Now scientists have used new methods to date the layers of rock around the tools, which are about 1.4 million years old.

“This is the oldest evidence of any human in Europe,” study co-author Mads Faurshoe Knudsen, a researcher at Aarhus University in Denmark, told The Associated Press.

However, it is still uncertain which of our early human ancestors likely made these tools.

Researchers suspect that it may have been Homo erectus that was the first human species to master walking upright and using fire.

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Roman Garba, lead author of the study, said in a statement: ‘Our earliest ancestors, Homo erectus, were the first early humans to leave Africa and move into the Middle East, East Asia and Europe around 2 million years ago.’

According to him: ‘Based on climate models and field pollen data we have identified three possible warm glacial periods when the first early humans could have reached Korolev through the migration corridor of the Danube River. ‘

Analyzing how the location of Korolev may have changed over two million years as their habitat, the scientists say our early human ancestors likely took advantage of Earth’s warm periods known as interglacials. to make these high latitudes habitable.

Due to its proximity to NATO countries Romania and Hungary, the Korolev site has so far been spared the invasion and destruction of Ukraine by Russian forces.

Dr Garba told Spanish daily El Pais that not a single bomb has been dropped here since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

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