WASHINGTON - A jawbone found in a cave in Romania may be evidence of the earliest modern humans in Europe, living at the same time as the last of the Neanderthals. 
Erik Trinkaus, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, has dated the bone at 34,000 to 36,000 years ago. His findings are reported in this week's online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The jawbone was found by recreational cavers who gave it to Oana Moldovan, director of the cave research institute in Cluj, Romania.
'Early Human Fosil in Romania' 
