What happened to the neanderthals and the cro-magans?

Question

please don't just state the obious and tell me they died. I need details.

Answer 1

Cro magnons were actually Homo sapiens, so their descendants are still around.

Neanderthals were probably lost through loss of habitat. They did great until Homo sapiens migrated to Europe and out competed them.

Neanderthals hunted by surrounding an animal and stabbing it with heavy spears. They couldn't compete with a group who could throw spears and have several kills before the herd stampeded.

There is some physical evidence that they interected, but no DNA evidence they interbred. Possibly they tried, but if we are truly a different species from Neanderthals, then the babies would be sterile, like we have when a donkey breeds with a horse and you get a mule. In that case, there would be no trace of Neanderthals

Answer 2

I dumped em!

Answer 3

their huner/ gatherer niche ws filled better by more modern type humans, so they were crowded out

Answer 4

Neanderthal tribes migrated into Europe at least 100,000 years ago, and disappeared 25,000 years ago...

Cro-Magnon tribes entered Europe from the east 40,000 years ago, and disppeared 10,000 years ago (at the end of the last Ice Age)...

That means that they co-existed for up to 15,000 years, in the same territory...

Answer 5

Surprise, you are a cro-magnon! Same as homo sapien! And same as Homo sapien sapien! But the neanderthals, they just work for geico now.

Answer 6

They live in United States

Answer 7

Didn't the ice age kill cavemen and women and dinosaurs?

Answer 8

I don't know why modern anthropologist won't state the obvious.  Cro-magnons probably hunted them down and killed them.  Neanderthals were a threat and a competitor for resources and I think Cro-magnon (as well as Neanderthals) loved their families and would not let the Neanderthals endanger them or take food.   Take for example this scenario;  When times were rough in a hard winter, the Neanderthal made a kill of a Mammoth.  Does anyone really believe that a Cro-Magnon would risk starving or would he take it.  He would probably have to fight the Neanderthal for it.  The Neanderthal would probably lose since Cro-Magnon had better tools and weapons and could kill them from a greater distance.  It seems they refuse to hypothesize the obvious and I can't figure that out unless they want to categorize the hunter gathers as noble savages which is ridiculous IMO.

Answer 9

Homo Sapiens out-competed the Neanderthal and Cro-magnon species.

Answer 10

Yeah, I've been wondering too.  They said they were headed out to buy a pack of smokes, but I haven't seen them in h**l knows how long.

Answer 11

they interbred and married happily ever after. I have no taste personnaly to buy into  the blood and guts story that they killing each other like it was intended or meant to be to have some type of 'racial war'. After all they likewise fought with members of their own respective race as well.

Answer 12

I don't know much about the cro-magnons... but I have learned lately that neanderthals might have slowly disappeared... they were overtaken by the homo Sapiens because we got smarter and adapted better to the surrounding environment... there is another theory about them being mixed with homo Sapien, however this is very much unlikely since it is said that we were two different species and we just couldn't reproduce with them.

Answer 13

"Stating the obvious" is something that modern Anthropologists would love to do. The problem is finding evidence of anything obvious from 40,000+ years ago. We have circumstantial evidence that Cro-Magnon and Neaderthal people coexisted, but little evidence of what the coexistance was like.

It's one thing to say, "Cro-Magnon would have reacted to Neanderthals like this." It's another to demonstrate that they did, and we simply can't do a very good job of that at this point. Assuming conjectures are true because they sound about right only hurts the inquiry process.

We know Neaderthals died out around 40,000 years ago. We don't know precisely why. It's unlikely they were hunted down by Cro-Magnon people to extinction, but conflict between the two groups could have been a contributor. The two groups were adapted differently, and environmental stresses more likely played a larger role. Of course, the trick is proving it.