tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post2600556288494216970..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Modern humans not Neandertals made the AurignacianDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-24138831653989145382009-06-02T16:11:02.163+03:002009-06-02T16:11:02.163+03:00Strange that this is still debated, but kudos to t...Strange that this is still debated, but kudos to the group.<br /><br />With strange, I also mean that it is strange that signatures ares so much more simple just a few thousand years later. What was different, during the earliest times?<br /><br />My feeling is that the first AMHs in Europe were exploiters: they received the "package" in NW Pakistan and Afghanistan, and then swiftly moved West killing and subsiding on plain horses and bison at will - without competition from Neanderthals. <br /><br />Part of the difficulty categorizing early modern human in Europe is based on this: there is a huge disparity between Europeans 35,000 to 25,000 years ago from those before.eurologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440019181278830033noreply@blogger.com