Saturday, June 15, 2019
Neanderthals, our distant cousins we interbred with
Re-evaluating Neanderthals
in Europe
Neanderthals
are not a mystery at all, but they were a success story for about 500,000 years
and suddenly they seem to have disappeared without any real wave at the time.
The mystery is why they disappeared. The question about knowing if they evolved
from Homo Erectus in the Middle East or in Europe is debatable. In the first
case, that would easily explain why all the Homo Sapiens that got out of Black
Africa managed to acquire some genes from Homo Neanderthalensis or the
Denisovans in Central Asia, with the spreading of these Neanderthal or
Denisovan genes to the whole world except Black Africa itself. If they evolved
in Europe to move to the Middle East only late, probably after 130,000 years
ago, quite a few Homo Sapiens moving out of Black Africa would have missed
them. But the question of their sudden disappearance in maybe ten or twenty
thousand years remains open knowing they were not in any way massacred,
eliminated by any final solution in the hands of Homo Sapiens. They just became
extinct. WHY?
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Medium.com
Archaeology * Technology
of Knapped Stone * Gravettian * Origins,
Evolution Structure and Functioning of the Human Mind * Human
Adventure and the Origins of Modern Culture. Environmental Archaeology
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:15 AM 
