Page "History of Romania" Paragraph 2

In 2002 in the " Cave With Bones " in present day Romania 40, 000 year old modern human remains were discovered.

In 2011 older modern human remains were identified in the UK ( Kents Cavern at 41, 000BP ) and Italy ( Grotta del Cavallo at 43, 000BP ), nonetheless the Romanian fossils are still among the oldest remains of Homo sapiens in Europe, so they may be representative of the first such people to have entered the continent.

The remains are especially interesting because they present a mixture of archaic, early modern human and Neanderthal morphological features.