Prehistoric human skull from Moca

The Foundation is actively involved in research to determine the age of a rare prehistoric skull discovered in Moca (South Slovakia). The skull was excavated in 1990 during dredging activities in the Danube riverbed, and in 1994 it was placed in the Slovak National Museum in Bratislava.

The foundation will support testing of the skull with the radiocarbon method, what is possible only in renowned world laboratories. We expect to determine its origin and age, which is assumed to be approximately 10 - 15 000 years old, from Palaeolithic age.

Estimated costs : 1000 $

Discovery of the skull of a Neanderthal man from Sala

The Foundation will support the precise dating of the recent discovery of the skull of a Neanderthal man from Sala (Galanta region), which belongs to the Archaeological Institute of the Slovak Academy of Science. This find consists of two specimens: the left forehead bone and the left vertex bone, assumed to belong to the same individual. One bone was found on the sand bank of the river V h in 1993, and the other at the same place two years later. Again, the radiocarbon dating will prove the expected approximate age of 40 000 years, which would add the anthropological discovery to extremely rare finds not only in Slovakia, but throughout Europe.

Estimated costs: 1500 $