Find out where Neaderthals waited out the ice age

Italian and French scientists have studied Paleolithic sites in the Puglia region.They confirmed that

Neanderthals have been permanently present in the region since the Early Wyrm glaciation to 45–39 thousand C.E.years ago, escaping the Ice Age.However, they later became extinct anyway.

Scientists suggest that the fault is not onlyunfavorable climatic changes, but also competition with Cro-Magnons for food resources. The survival of Neaderthals was also influenced by diseases to which they did not have immunity. It also turned out that Neanderthals lived in very small groups and died out due to low genetic diversity.

Photos from explored sites in Puglia
Francesco Boshin et al. / Journal of Quaternary Science, 2021

Archaeologists have come to the conclusion that everyone hasFor the known reasons for the disappearance of Neanderthals, it is worth adding also ineffective hunting methods, due to which the relatives of modern people received less meat and were less likely to get it.

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