How many Cro-magnon?

Question

Through my readings, I notice that there were about 10,000 Neanderthals in the world about 30,000 years ago...but does anyone know about how many Cro-magnons there were at that time? Please list your source!!! I need to read up on it!

Thanks!

Answer 1

Here's some numbers:

"It appears that we may have co-existed with Neanderthals for up to tens of thousands of years in the Middle East, then Neanderthals became extinct. With the appearance of Cro Magnon in Europe 40,000 years ago, the co-existence there (perhaps a combined total of only 12,000 individuals) lasted up to 10,000 thousand years.

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/bnbg6...

In fact, the growth rate for Homo sapiens sapiens has been estimated at 0.017% up to 8,000 B.C. (doubling roughly every 4,000 years).

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/bnbg6...

"Between 10,000 BCE and 5,000BCE the estimated population went from 1 to 5 million people."

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/bnbg6...

As you can see, most of this is a guess. Very, very few remains exist and much of the numbers seems based on modern studies of primitive cultures.

There doesn't appear to be much evidence of battles between Early Modern Humans ("EMH." has replaced "Cro-Magnon" as a formal label) Where sites show both groups inhabiting them, it appears the fluctuation of the ice age caused human migrations. When the Neandertals came it had become colder and the EMH had moved South.

EMH also were built to exploit the tundra while Neandertals stayed in the diminishing fur forests. The simply weren't bui;t for the open

Answer 2

In the 300,000+ years of the neanderthal's existence, there were never more than 10,000 of them at any one time, throughout Europe and western Asia!

Because neanderthals were smaller yet possibly stronger than Cro-Magnon in general, it would have been the sheer numbers of Cro-Magnon entering into Europe 30-40,000 years ago, which would have been the reason that neanderthals were either outcompeted for resources, or in battle, or a little bit of both!

Answer 3

There were very few of them and they had thier work cut out surviving to pass on their genes to religious people who would then deny they ever existed. A thankless task.

Answer 4

LOL, beek! LOL some more. OK, I'm under control.

I'm not sure if this will have it, but you could try:

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/bein...

Of course, you do realize it's only estimates, right?

You could also go to United Nations, and look for population data. They've done estimates going back pretty far, though I'm not sure if they go far enough.

If those don't work, do some judicious searching using your favorite search engine.