Neanderthals and Homo sapiens coexisted for less than 1000 years in the Cantabrian Region
Neanderthals and Homo sapiens could not have coexisted for more than a millennium in the Cantabrian Region, which reduces significantly the possibilities for interaction between the two groups and tends to reinforce the hypothesis of an intrinsic cause of extinction, according to a study based on radiocarbon dates from thirteen archaeological sites in this area of southwestern Europe.
According to Joseba Rios Garaizar, an archaeologist at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), who participated in the selection of samples, the contextualization and interpretation of the results obtained, the Cantabrian Region is one of the European areas with the most extensive archaeological records associated with the late Neanderthal and early modern human populations, “although most of them have not been well dated, and this work led by Ana Belén MarÃn-Arroyo is directed at filling this gapâ€.
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2018/04/neanderthals-and-homo-sapiens-coexisted-for-less-than-1000-years-in-the-cantabrian-region/118923
