The earliest evidence of modern humans in Europe discovered in France

The first evidence of the existence of modern humans in Europe has been unearthed in a cave in southern France, showing that they lived there at the same time as Neanderthals, which has long been suspected but which had never been established before.
The clearest evidence is a single milk tooth from a modern human infant, aged 2 to 6, which was found in a layer of clayey and sandy sediment on the floor of Grotte Mandrin, a cave in the valley of the Rhone. Distinctive fragments of flint points believed to be for arrows and darts used in hunting have also been discovered by early modern humans. According to a study of the findings published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, the findings move the oldest date of our species — Homo sapiens — in Europe by around 10,000 years ago, to around 54,000 years ago.