Modern humans arrived in westernmost Europe 41,000 to 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to an international team of researchers that discovered stone tools used by modern humans dated to the earlier time period in a cave near the Atlantic coast of central Portugal. The tools document the presence of modern humans at a time when Neanderthals were thought to be present in the region.
Tag: Neanderthals
Once again: Did Neanderthals speak?
At the Sapiens site, Goldfield offers some sound files that might represent Neanderthal vs, current vocalization.
Source: Once again: Did Neanderthals speak? | Uncommon Descent
Neanderthals May Have Been Driven to Extinction by a Tiny Drop in Fertility Rates | Richard Dawkins Foundation
Humans and Neanderthals evolved from a mystery common ancestor
Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology | Evolution News
Darwinian fairy tales about prehistoric Neanderthal proclivities and modern psychology are obvious junk science.
Source: Why an Evolutionist Disses Evolutionary Psychology | Evolution News
Neanderthals’ main food source was definitely meat
Researchers describe two late Neanderthals with exceptionally high nitrogen isotope ratios, which would traditionally be interpreted as the signature of freshwater fish consumption. By studying the isotope ratios of single amino acids, they however demonstrated that instead of fish, the adult Neanderthal had a diet relying on large herbivore mammals and that the other Neanderthal was a breastfeeding baby whose mother was also a carnivore.