Three ~31,000-Year-Old Skulls from Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic (1/2) (IMAGE)

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Three ~31,000-Year-Old Skulls from Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic (1/2)

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Three ~31,000-year-old skulls from Dolni V?stonice in the Czech Republic. For the next five thousand years, all samples analyzed in this study -- whether from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Austria, or Italy -- are closely related, reflecting a population expansion associated with the Gravettian archaeological culture.

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Martin Frouz and Ji?í Svoboda

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