BERLIN.- A team of scientists, comprising members from Berlin’s Museum of Prehistory and Early History, Universität Greifswald, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the Leibniz Laboratory for Radiometric Dating and Stable Isotope Research in Kiel, have managed to unlock the secrets surrounding the dating of the burial site of Combe Capelle that was discovered by the Swiss researcher Otto Hauser in 1909. Since his sensational discovery, the site of Combe Capelle has long been considered one of the oldest finds of the remains of modern Homo sapiens anywhere in Europe. Due to the individual circumstances of the find, doubt was sometimes cast on its speculated age of more than 30,000 years and its connection with the transition to the Upper Palaeolithic (Châtelperronian). In spite of this, however, the remains (buried with a chain of mussel