The Independent: the first human to live on Romanian territories

The Independent publishes in its Monday edition the image of the first human to live in Europe. The expression „We’ve been here for thousands of years” got a new significance because now we can say ” We’ve been living here for 35 thousand years” and have a picture to prove it, Badut Ulmanu, the first to signal the article, wrote in his blog.

According to the British publication, the face pertains to a man/woman who lived in the woods in the Carpathian mountains on Romanian territory about 35,000 years ago. A British specialist in judicial medicine Richard Neave used parts of a cranium found in a cave to restore the face of the first „Romanian”. The Independent reveals that specialists could not determine the skin color of the first Europeans but speculations claim that it was a lot darker than today.

The model will appear in a BBC 2 series, The Incredible Human Journey about human evolution and origins. Bristol University anthropologist, Alice Roberts declared that the model seems to be a combination of European, Asian or African origins. The bones were discovered in the Bones Cave in Romania in 2002.