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The fate of the Neanderthals

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Between about 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, the Neanderthals in Europe were replaced by populations of behaviourally and biologically modern humans. What happened during that period?

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Figure 1: A head of its time — Neanderthal skull discovered in Gibraltar in 1848.

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Figure 2: Radiocarbon (C-14) and other absolute age measurements for late Neanderthal and early modern human sites.

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  1. *Gibraltar and the Neanderthals 1848-1948, Gibraltar Museum, 28-30 August 1998.

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