[Renfield]

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[SampleMan]

The genocide theories just don’t pass logical muster to me. To completely wipe out Neanderthals so quickly would require purpose, planning, and great effort. Europe was not thickly populated, so there were many isolated places.

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Some recent theories and studies indicate that the ‘taller and superior’ Cro Magnons were able to mate with the Neanderthal species.

Perhaps they were also faster and better looking and thus able to catch and mate with willing or unwilling Neanderthal maidens, creating hybrids which became closer and closer to the dominant species over the years through constant breeding out of the Neanderthal stock.

Perhaps this was the way the Neanderthal world ended, not with a whimper but a bang!

[SunkenCiv]

This is one of those “mysteries” which gets “solved” every year.

Study: Neanderthals, Modern Humans Same Species
USA Today | 12-26-2001 | Michael A. Stowe
Posted on 01/10/2002 8:42:43 AM EST by blam
Edited on 04/13/2004 4:38:56 AM EDT by Jim Robinson.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/605441/posts

Neanderthal Extinction Pieced Together
Discovery Channel | 1/27/04 | Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 01/27/2004 4:31:28 PM EST by LibWhacker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1066363/posts

Study: Modern Humans Killed Off Neanderthals Quickly
http://www.foxnews.com | Saturday, February 25, 2006 | AP
Posted on 02/25/2006 8:11:22 AM EST by ThreePuttinDude
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1585316/posts

Anthropologist resigns in ‘dating disaster’
Worlnetdaily | February 19, 2005 | unattributed
Posted on 02/19/2005 10:36:30 AM EST by Woodworker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346676/posts

Disgraced Anthropologist Drinks 40,000-Year-Old Milk (Humerus break)
www.scrappleface.com
Posted on 02/19/2005 10:28:21 AM EST by InvisibleChurch
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346673/posts

Neanderthal Man ‘Never Walked In Northern Europe’
The Telegraph (UK) | 8-22-2004 | Tony Paterson
Posted on 08/21/2004 10:25:32 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196571/posts

[snip] Work by the flamboyant Professor Reiner Protsch von Zieten showed that Neanderthal Man existed in northern Europe. Calculations on skeletal remains found at Hahnofersand, near Hamburg, stated they were 36,000 years old. Yet recent research at Oxford University’s carbon-dating laboratory has suggested that they date back a mere 7,500 years. By that time, Homo sapiens was already well-established and the Neanderthals were extinct. [end of snip]

Neanderthal Man Floated Into Europe, Say Spanish Researchers
The Guardian (UK) | 1-16-2006 | Giles Tremlett
Posted on 01/16/2006 6:13:24 PM EST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559199/posts

Science Shows Cave Art Developed Early
BBC | 10-3-2001
Posted on 10/03/2001 3:16:47 PM EDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/538831/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1583943/posts?page=16#16

Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd
Dienekes Pontikos
July 07, 2004
http://dienekes.ifreepages.com/blog/archives/000614.html

A new study in Nature removes the last remaining link between the Upper Paleolithic Aurignacian technologies and modern humans. There is thus currently no evidence for the co-existence of UP humans and Aurignacian technologies at any sites. The authors conclude that while there is still evidence for the existence of modern humans in Europe during Aurignacian times, there is no longer any evidence for the idea that modern humans produced the Aurignacian, suggesting that this could just as easily have been produced by the indigenous Neandertals.

Nature 430, 198 - 201 (08 July 2004)

NICHOLAS J. CONARD et al.

The human skeletal remains from the Vogelherd cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany are at present seen as the best evidence that modern humans produced the artefacts of the early Aurignacian1. Radiocarbon measurements from all the key fossils from Vogelherd show that these human remains actually date to the late Neolithic, between 3,900 and 5,000 radiocarbon years before present (BP). Although many questions remain unresolved, these results weaken the arguments for the Danube Corridor hypothesis2—that there was an early migration of modern humans into the Upper Danube drainage—and strengthen the view that Neanderthals may have contributed significantly to the development of Upper Palaeolithic cultural traits independent of the arrival of modern humans3, 4.

[Grimmy]

If the Geico commercials are anything to go by, the cavemen probably died out because they were unable to remain loyal to their own social agendas when faced with opportunity to better their personal transactions on trade deals.

[Max in Utah]

I think disease could have been a major cause of the Neanderthals decline and final demise. Cro-magnons may well have brought new diseases to which they had no resistance.

Look at American Indians: more of them died from new diseases than any other cause. The Mandans are a prime example.

[Pelham]

Please. We all know it’s because GEICO did them in.