ANTHRO SITES

Manot Cave

This site in Israel has the oldest remains of AMHs outside of Africa (skull dating to ~55,000 years ago). The site had stone tools such as points, burins, scalpels, blades, and scrapers have been recovered. Animal bone recovered from the site included deer, gazelle, horse, aurochs, hyena, and bear.

Groote Mandrin

This site in France has the oldest AMH skeletal evidence in Europe. The site dates to 51,700 - 56,800 years ago. Teeth from at least 7 individuals were recovered as well as stone tool evidence connecting AMH to both the Levant and Africa.

Niah Cave

This site can be found on the Malaysian portion of Borneo. The oldest skeletal remains, 'Deep Skull', was dated based on 14C dates of charcoal in the strata with the skull and dates of the strata the skull was in using uranium-series dating, resulting in a date range of 39,000 - 45,000 years ago.

Lake Mungo

The oldest human remains in Australia were the cremated bones of a woman, dated to ~42,000 years ago. This makes the remains the earliest ritually cremated remains found anywhere in the world.

Yana Rhinoceros Horn

This site indicates that AMH may have travelled from Siberia to the Americas pre-Last Glacial Maximum. The site has a long record of occupation by humans but the earliest dates to between 16,000 – 19,000 years ago.

White Sands National Park

Human footprints dated to between 21,000 – 23,000 years ago were discovered in ancient lake sediments, suggesting humans were in North America prior to the end of the Last Glacial Maximum.

Meadowcroft Rockshelter

One of the sites in the Americas, located in Mexico, with excavations discovering 1,900 stone tools dated by 46 different radiocarbon samples, indicating AMH presence prior to the end of the Last Glacial Maximum.

Chiquihuite Cave

This site is evidence that AMH lived north of the Arctic Circle ~32,000 years ago. The very cold and wet conditions created fantastic preservation of organic materials and indicated a sustained AMH settlement.

Monte Verde

This site in Chile is among those with solid dates for the Americas, suggesting AMH presence just before the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, with various artifacts and animal bones discovered.