Anthropology #9?

Question

The last of the archaic human populations to co-exist for a time with anatomically modern Homo sapiens was the?

Answer 1

homo florensis, but this is controversial. otherwise i would say homo erectus

Answer 2

well I would say the Homo neaderthalensis....I know there was an overlap of around 30,000 years with Cro magnum (archaic humans)...os I guess this is it.

Answer 3

It sounds like they are looking for Neanderthals which is debatable if they fit the definition of human.  Neanderthals were living with us around 30,000 years ago in Spain.  If they are going to broaden the definition of human, Homo Floresiensis, the very small humanoid in Indonesia,  was living with us maybe 18,000 years ago or even later, and Homo erectus lived to 20,000 years ago in Java.  I wouldn't suggest that we could know the last archaic population since the fossil record is so sparse.  There might even been some relict populations that have lived to the present, such as the Orang Pendak in Indonesia and Almas in Asia.