How Savvy Neanderthals Used Rivers To Travel Long Distances Across The World

How Savvy Neanderthals Used Rivers To Travel Long Distances Across The World

New research reveals that our extinct Neanderthal relatives were surprisingly savvy navigators who used river valleys to zip across continents in record time. The post How Savvy Neanderthals Used Rivers To Travel Long Distances Across The World appeared first on Study Finds.

New Research Sheds Light on Neanderthal Migration Out of Caucasus Mountains

Neanderthals likely used river valleys as natural highways and traveled during warmer periods to move approximately 3,250 km (2,000 miles) through the Urals and southern Siberia in less than 2,000 years. The post New Research Sheds Light on Neanderthal Migration Out of Caucasus Mountains appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.

Agent-based simulations reveal the possibility of multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia

Genetic and archaeological evidence imply a second major movement of Neanderthals from Western to Central and Eastern Eurasia sometime in the Late Pleistocene. The genetic data suggest a date of 120−80 ka for the dispersal and the archaeological record provides an earliest date of arrival in the Altai by ca. 60 ka. Because the number of archaeological sites linking the two regions is very small, the exact route taken and its timing have been the…