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Swiss and Albanian archaelogists discover 8,500 year old pre-historic settlement

University of Bern professor Albert Hafner confirms that a collaboration under the regional project EXPLO has resulted in ground-breaking findings from the village of Lin, near Pogradec on the Lake Ohrid shoreline

https://www.eda.admin.ch/countries/albania/en/home/news/news.html/content/countries/albania/en/meta/news/embassy/2023/lin-archaelogy-interview-hafner

Mysterious Village on Stilts Found Submerged Under Ancient Lake

https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-village-on-stilts-found-submerged-under-ancient-lake

Europe's 1st humans were likely wiped out by a sudden freeze 1.1 million years ago

Abstract
The oldest known hominin remains in Europe [~1.5 to ~1.1 million years ago (Ma)] have been recovered from Iberia, where paleoenvironmental reconstructions have indicated warm and wet interglacials and mild glacials, supporting the view that once established, hominin populations persisted continuously. We report analyses of marine and terrestrial proxies from a deep-sea core on the Portugese margin that show the presence of pronounced millennial-scale climate variability during a glacial period ~1.154 to ~1.123 Ma, culminating in a terminal stadial cooling comparable to the most extreme events of the last 400,000 years. Climate envelope–model simulations reveal a drastic decrease in early hominin habitat suitability around the Mediterranean during the terminal stadial. We suggest that these extreme conditions led to the depopulation of Europe, perhaps lasting for several successive glacial-interglacial cycles.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adf4445

Europe's first humans, a population of the archaic human species Homo erectus, were probably wiped out by an "extreme cooling event" about 1.1 million years ago, a new study finds.

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/europes-1st-humans-were-likely-wiped-out-by-a-sudden-freeze-11-million-years-ago