Humans and Neanderthals Lived Side-by-Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago, Study Finds
Humans and Neanderthals Lived Side-by-Side in Northern Europe 45,000 Years Ago, Study Finds
Archaeologists identified bone fragments of prehistoric modern humans in Germany, suggesting several millennia of coexistence with Neanderthals before the species disappeared
Didn’t Yuval Noah Harari mention this in Sapiens 10 years ago?
Lots of different things have been discovered.
Like, it was news when it was discovered we lived at the same time, it was news that we lived in the same place.
Now it's news that we lived at the same place in the same time.
Later it'll be news that we lived together with them not just next to each other.
That's how science works. You prove something easy, then prove something a little harder as more evidence is discovered and research done.
We already "knew" it because we know interbreeding happened, but it's not the same as finding evidence of them coexisting.
So you might also be remembering a hypothesis that is now being proven.
That's why so much science sounds like it's repetitive.
Great explanation!!! Thanks! 😊