[SunkenCiv]

[Blado]

climactic factors

Is that the Neanderthal spelling?

[FerociousRabbit]

“The demographic crisis seems to coincide with a period of extreme cold in Western Europe.”

If only they had practiced a little more Neandertal-made global warming, they could have saved themselves.

[Tainan]

Ice Age?

People left for warmer climes?

[Condor51]

I knew it. Those dam ILLEGALS again. Everywhere they invade they cause problems.

And these guys prolly didn't even have the courtesy to Vote for the RAT party in return -- literally.

:-)

[trebb]

Subsequently, this region was repopulated by a small group of individuals from a surrounding area

Probably the Clan of the Cave Bear - they knew how to survive cold weather...

[Chainmail]

Ping for later

[eartrumpet]

Waiting for the Hollywood monster pictures to be posted again...

[Calamari]

Global Cooling got them. Must have been the inability to produce greenhouse gasses.

[null and void]

Homo sapiens sapiens went through a severe bottleneck event as well.

Ours is genetically dated to 70K years ago.

I wonder if a larger sample size of homo sapiens neanderthalensis would give a similar date, and why...

[blueunicorn6]

My family has extremely tough skin. Geneticists have traced this to the fact that my ancestors were always thrown out on their asses by whoever came into the neighborhood. Not good fighters, but we can skid across gravel without getting hurt at all.

[Reeses]

Western European Neandertals went through a demographic crisis

World War -MCMLXXXVIII