Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "Modern humans arrived in Europe thousands of years earlier than previously thought - BBC News" video.

  1. I think for one reason or another Neanderthals were out competed by the new comers. Given the high amounts of injuries found amongst Neanderthals I suspect they were more of an ambush hunter. The H Sap's drifting in from the Levant or across the the Straights of Gibraltar or possibly through Italy would have been better suited to running prey down. If the H Saps put a serious dent in the Neanderthals primary prey species that could of led to a gradual population decline. After all the first H Saps in Europe could have been equipped with spear throwers and bows.
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  2. It is longer than 12,000 years previously as thought. How long would it have taken for modern humans* to have spread far enough to leave traces behind them. From Africa there are only three routes into Europe. Through Anatolia into Greece and the Balkans, Across Gibraltar and from Tunisia into Scilly and on into Italy. All of them imply at least rudimentary navigational skills depending the conditions around the Darndenells and Bosphorus. Of course 60k + years ago shorelines were very different in the Aegean and Adriatic. *I really don't care for that term. It implies that Neanderthals, Denisovians are possibly other lineages were somehow subhuman. At least that is how some people will interpret the term. The "caveman" idea still is around.
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