{"id":225121,"date":"2025-11-14T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-700000-year-old-skull-in-greek-cave-completely-shatters-the-out-of-africa-theory"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:17:06","slug":"the-700000-year-old-skull-in-greek-cave-completely-shatters-the-out-of-africa-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/the-700000-year-old-skull-in-greek-cave-completely-shatters-the-out-of-africa-theory","title":{"rendered":"The 700,000-year-old Skull in Greek cave completely shatters the Out of Africa theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-700000-year-old-skull-in-greek-cave-completely-shatters-the-out-of-africa-theory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cPetralona Man,\u201d or \u201cPetralona Archanthropus\u201d is a for 700,000 years old human skull found in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of this skull, which has created tremendous controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The skull, indicating the oldest human \u201cEuropeoid\u201d (presenting European traits), was embedded in a cave\u2019s wall in Petralona, near Chalkidiki in Northern Greece.<\/p>\n<p>A shepherd mistakenly found the cave, dense with stalactites and stalagmites. The cave and skull study was assigned to Dr. Aris Poulianos, an anthropologist specialist, member of UNESCO\u2019s International Union of Anthropology and Ethnology, and president of the Anthropological Association of Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cPetralona Man,\u201d or \u201cPetralona Archanthropus\u201d is a for 700,000 years old human skull found in 1959. Since then, scientists have tried to locate the origin of this skull, which has created tremendous controversy. The skull, indicating the oldest human \u201cEuropeoid\u201d (presenting European traits), was embedded in a cave\u2019s wall in Petralona, near Chalkidiki in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}