An archaeologist explains how remains recently recovered from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans populated Europe together for at least 10,000 years. The coexistence of Neanderthals and modern humans in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.
Various scenarios have been explored over the years, from those positing tens of thousands of years of coexistence between the two groups of humans, to those seeing a much more rapid replacement of Neanderthals. Both positions allow for the occasional interbreeding that has resulted in a little bit of Neanderthal being present in many of us. However, there are many challenges to exploring this distant time
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