«Neanderthals, for example, had lived in Europe and Western Asia for around 200,000 years before
the arrival of modern humans.
They are roughly 175,000 years old, which means they easily predate
the arrival of modern humans in Europe.
Not exact matches
This supports the theory first advanced several years ago that the
arrival of early
modern humans in Europe may have stimulated the Neanderthals into copying aspects
of their symbolic behaviour in the millennia before they disappeared.
But in Western Europe, I think it was a combination
of the
arrival of people with superior technology and climate change so the Neandertals were doubly unlucky, because at the time
modern humans came into Europe, the climate
of Europe was extremely unstable.
Modern humans and Neanderthals therefore lived in roughly the same regions for thousands
of years, but the new
human arrivals, from the Neanderthal perspective, might not have been welcome, and for good reason.
The rise in the prevalence
of all
of these conditions parallels the
arrival of modern and processed foods, such as refined carbohydrate, in the
human diet.
February 14 — June 29, 2014, «No
Human Way to Kill» on display at the Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts, as part
of New
Arrivals:
Modern and Contemporary Additions to the Collection