1. Agata Olariu NIPNE, Bucharest Göran Skog Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, Lund, Sweden Emilian Alexandrescu Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest Ragnar Hellborg, Kristina Stenström, Mikko Faarinen and Per Persson Mikko Faarinen and Per Persson Lund University, Sweden

3. Lund University AMS system

4. Malu Rosu, Giurgiu, 20 000 BC

6. Cioclovina cave, 29 500 BC

7. Baia de Fier 29 500 BC

8. Predmosti Cioclovina Baia Malu Rosu Cro-MagnonFrance GrimaldiItaly

9. The 2 skulls from Cioclovina and Baia de Fier are the only human fossil bones discovered in Romania Assigned to the Upper Paleolithic One could advance the hypothesis that the skulls belong to a certain type of a branch of the Central European type, Cro-Magnon (France)- Predmosti (Moravia)-Grimaldi (Italy) Considering both the chronological and the anthropological features They constitute the eastern limit of the Cro-Magnon man type which is the classical western type