Tam Pa Ling Early Human Remains (IMAGE)

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Tam Pa Ling Early Human Remains

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Researchers found an ancient human skull, left, with modern characteristics, and a human jaw, right, with modern and archaic traits, in the same cave in northern Laos. Both artifacts date to 46,000 to 63,000 years ago.

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Fabrice Demeter

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