Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer in Spain than previously thought
Posted on November 17, 2017
Neanderthals survived at least 3,000 years longer than we thought in Southern Iberia – what is now Spain – long after they had died out everywhere else, according to new research published in Heliyon (open access).
The authors of the study, an international team from Portuguese, Spanish, Catalonian, German, Austrian and Italian research institutions, say their findings suggest that the process of modern human populations absorbing Neanderthal populations through interbreeding was not a regular, gradual wave-of-advance but a “stop-and-go, punctuated, geographically uneven history.”
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/neanderthals-survived-at-least-3000-years-longer-in-spain-than-previously-thought
