Sci News
By News Staff
October 13, 2022
Between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, the demographic landscape of Europe is transformed as Neanderthals are replaced by anatomically modern humans and disappear from the fossil record.
Recent evidence from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and south-eastern France indicates that the first anatomically modern humans arrived in Europe by at least 47,000-45,000 years ago and possibly as far as 54,000 years ago.
At a continental scale, this would suggest a possible overlap of upwards of 14,000 years between these human species.