Surprise discovery “fundamentally changes” history of humans and Neanderthals in northwest Europe (cosmosmagazine.com)

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[-] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 5 months ago

There's a lot of domain terminology that's fairly opaque to non-specialists. Anyone care to take a stab at summarizing the revelation for us lay-people?

[-] danl@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Humans and Neanderthals were neighbours for longer than previously thought. Also, we’re maybe back to humans making more tools.

…the discovery of more of its remnants alongside human fossils points to Homo sapiens inhabiting central Germany at the same time.

“It turns out that stone artefacts that were thought to be produced by Neanderthals were in fact part of the early Homo sapiens tool kit,” says Jean-Jacques Hublin, a professor in palaeoanthropology at Collège de France.

“This fundamentally changes our previous knowledge about this time period: Homo sapiens reached northwestern Europe long before Neanderthal disappearance in southwestern Europe.”

Is there more?

[-] sxan@midwest.social 6 points 5 months ago

Oh. "Fundamentally changes" for paleontologists, not for your typical person. Got it.

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