neanderthals

THE NEANDERTHALS About 150,000 or 200,000 years ago, Europe and western Asia witnessed the emergence of a distinctive new kind of human. The group is known informally as the Neanderthals, after the German site in the valley of the Neander River that in 1857. The earliest probable Neanderthal fossil is a broken braincase from Ehringsdorf, in germany, dated to 200,000 years ago or perhaps even earlier. However the reconstruction of this specimin is disputed and for better evidence we …

…of millions of native Americans died as a result. A further posibility is that the Neanderthal peopllle suffered "passive displacement" by highly more organised and better equipted Cro-Magnons. The new comers were supirior at hunting gathering finding shelter and generally surviving. They out competed the Neanderthsl people who succumbed through lack of food and shelter. Yet another version is that displacement was not passive but active. The Cro-Magnons killed off the Neanderthal people. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**