An international team of researchers found fossils of tools and bones at the 'Ilsenhohle cave in Ranis that show a technological handover from the Neanderthals, our closest but extinct relatives, and early H. sapiens.
The [fossils of tools found at the cave] were described as having 'elongated stone points,' partly shaped on both sides a technology known as partial bifacial blade points. These are characteristic of a 'technocomplex' called the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ).
Previously, the earliest known H. sapiens remains from northern central and northwestern Europe were about 40,000 years old.
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