In 1998, archaeologists discovered the buried skeleton of a four-year-old child dating to approximately 25,000 years ago at Lagar Velho, near Leiria, Portugal.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by peer-reviewed original publication (PubMed 1999), Wikipedia, and specialist archaeology site. Date figure (~25,000 BP) matches long-standing original estimate, though a 2025 study revised it slightly older (~28,000 BP).
Sources
- Lagar Velho | Prehistoric, Megalithic, Dolmen | Britannica (britannica.com)
- https://donsmaps.com/lagar.html (donsmaps.com)
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10377462/ (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)