Foreign media: Scientists used uranium series dating to determine the age of a non-human skull found in the Petralona Cave in the Macedonian region of Greece. The skull is neither Neanderthal nor modern human, and it has a stalagmite embedded on the top.
The research team found that the calcite deposits on the skull were formed at least 286,000 years ago, with an error range of about 9,000 years. This means the skull may have formed between 277,000 and 539,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene period (773,000 to 126,000 years ago).
Chris Stringer from the Natural History Museum in London said that this time range suggests that the population to which the skull belongs may have coexisted with the evolving Neanderthal lineage in Europe during the late Middle Pleistocene.
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