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[–] Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 45 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There was a time where both modern humans and Neanderthals lived together in Europe and it's likely they mixed. But this was before the last ice age. After the ice age the Neanderthals were already extinct globally and the first people to repopulate Europe were these WHGs who genetically had little to do with the pre ice age population. Therefore I would assume strictly European Neanderthals have little to no modern genetic impact in Europeans. The Neanderthals genes Europeans carry today would instead derive from middle eastern Neanderthals.

[–] Mavvik@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh I see, thats very interesting thank you! Are you an archaeologist, or just someone very interested in stone-age history?

[–] Barley_Man@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah I'm just very interested in agricultural history (I work in agriculture ) and I learned this stuff as a byproduct of learning about the origins and spread of farming into Europe. If you are interested there are lots of good long-form history videos about the neolithic on YouTube, just search Neolithic. So far Neolithic youtube has not suffered the same AI slop-ageddon as medieval YouTube has.

Shoutout to Miniminuteman/Milo Rossi, he’s an archaeologist and does a lot of debunking of ancient aliens-esque conspiracy theories, collaborative videos with other archaeologists about their work, and cool educational videos about things I’d never heard of before, like The Great Raft: a unique ecosystem made up of a log-jammed river that existed for ~600 years and supported multiple indigenous societies.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 5 points 1 day ago

This is so cool, thanks for sharing. I am reading Earth's Children book 4 right now and I know the author was well documented, but she wrote those books 30 years ago, so I assume modern findings would clash with some of her fiction. Anyway, thanks again

[–] pentastarm@piefed.ca 11 points 1 day ago

I want to thank you too, that was a very interesting read! Thanks for the knowledge! 💖

[–] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Fun fact: we're still in an kce age. What you're thinking of is technically a glacial maximum