[SunkenCiv]

CNRS is 'Centre national de la recherche scientifique'.

Byzovaya site. © Photo Ludovic Slimak

[JRandomFreeper]

My brother-in-law never said anything about relatives up there.

/johnny

[GOP Poet]

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[Little Pig]

Just a passing thought, but I wonder if they were refugees? Last survivors of the losing side of some ancient, nonviolent conquest/displacement? Forced to live in a marginal environment due to an influx of more aggressive, more adaptable homo sapiens?

[count-your-change]

First came the Meanderthals, they wandered around a lot.

The came the Oleanderthals, bunch of flower pickers.

Finally the Kneeanderthals, couldn't run away from predators because their knees were bad from all that bending down to pick flowers and walking around without Orthotic Insoles in their sandals.

[TigersEye]

I find it interesting that the Neanderthals died out right about the time that the interglacial warming period began. I don’t make anything of that but the timing is interesting. Just their bad luck?

[ZULU]

A computer search of Mousterian indicates this is also characteristic of early MOdern Man.