The “last Neanderthal technology” shows the species was in trouble before modern humans got to Europe
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Neanderthals didn’t disappear all at once. In fact, these near-humans never really disappeared entirely. That’s because most modern people whose ancestors hail from Europe or Asia — where Neanderthals lived — are part Neanderthal themselves.
That stunning fact, uncovered in recent decades by genetic analysis, hints at the complex history that must have unfolded when anatomically modern humans started encountering Neanderthals who’d been living in Eurasia for hundreds of thousands of years.