Abstract:Europe was the last Old World continent to be inhabited by hominins but was historically where interest in human prehistory originated. European research established the deep biocultural evolution of humans and provided much of the interpretive framework for that evolution. The earliest humans appear to have reached Europe around 1.3 million years ago. Hominin fossils are relatively rare in Europe until the advent of Neandertals, but the pre‐Neandertal record played an important role in early models of later h… Show more
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