Jaw-dropping find emerges from Stone Age cave
By Bruce Bower
From Tempe, Arizona, at a meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society
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Researchers exploring a Romanian cave system in March 2002 got a prehistoric surprise. The scientists, directed by Oana Moldovan of the Romanian Academy in Cluj, swam through an underwater passageway and entered a largely dry, limestone chamber. In the middle of this cave, resting on the ground, lay a nearly complete lower jaw that may represent the oldest known example of anatomically modern Homo sapiens in Europe.