Ludovic Slimak, Archaeologist: «We Arrived and They Hid. It Did Not Take a War to End the Neanderthals»

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The Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, dominated much of Eurasia for hundreds of thousands of years until about 40,000 disappeared as if by magic. It can be said that they evaporated: there they were, hunting deer and carving stones, creating glue, cooking or leaving their imprint on ornaments, and then, without further ado, they ceased to be. Their presence in the archaeological record. Scientists have shuffled different hypotheses to…