Neanderthal extinction not caused by brutal wipe out
New fossils challenge ideas that modern humans wiped out Neanderthals after arriving from Africa. …
The evidence suggests that this early group of humans lived at the site for a relatively brief period, of perhaps about 2,000 years after which the site was unoccupied. The Neanderthals then return, occupying the site for several more thousand years, until modern humans come back about 44,000 years ago.