Neanderthals of the Western Mediterranean did not become extinct because of changes in climate
Monday, July 20, 2020 - 12:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Homo Neanderthaliensis did not become extinct because of changes in climate. At least, this did not happen to the several Neanderthal groups that lived in the western Mediterranean 42,000 years ago. A research group of the University of Bologna came to this conclusion after a detailed paleoclimatic reconstruction of the last ice age through the analysis of stalagmites sampled from some caves in Apulia, Italy.