It probably has nothing to do with the contemporary Romanians but its god to ad something new on the "first in Europe" list, isn't it?

Three Romanian cavers found in 2002 a human jawbone proven to be the oldest in Europe.

The picture here represents what the forensic artists have recreated based on the bones found in the Romanian cave Pestera cu Oase situated in Transylvania (Romanian region). So, this would be the face of the Europeans who lived 35000 years ago on these lands.

The skull and jawbone found in Romania have been carbon dated between 34,000 and 36,000 years old, prooving that the modern human lived in Europe when both Neanderthal man and modern humans - Homo sapiens – did.
The interesting thing is that the skull doesn't actually look European. It looks like a mixture of European, African, Asian and a little bit of the immagination of the artists who created this figure. We will never know for sure how much is reality and how much is artistic imagination but untill a new version is available we will just have to believe in this one.

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