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Neanderthal Man

Neanderthal Man was banished from its more advanced cousin Europe Homo sapiens

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Neanderthals may have been overwhelmed by a "wave" consists of their more advanced cousins, the first modern humans, they have caused extinction 40,000 years ago, according to a British study conducted in an archaeological site in Périgord a province in southern France was great.

How Neanderthal man disappeared, allowing more advanced Homo sapiens populations, probably coming from Africa, to implant in Europe? This question is the subject of much debate within the international scientific community.

The latest theory, published Thursday in Science magazine American, is based on a statistical analysis of items dating from that era that were discovered in the Périgord region.

Researchers at Cambridge University in Britain found that the number of sites to be occupied by early modern humans, where they found traces of settlements, some, animal waste and food, was higher than the number of sites occupied by Neanderthal man.

Sites where the first modern humans had lived at the same time, objects characteristic of Homo sapiens, such as stone tools, jewelry and even art, in forms more evolved than those that were able to create Neanderthals.

Arrival of the first modern humans in Europe forced the Neanderthals likely to leave their habitats to settle in places where food and shelter were more difficult to find, thus hastening their extinction, said Paul Mellars from Cambridge University, Coordinator this study.

"Faced with this competition, it appears that Neanderthals receded in regions less attractive and more isolated from the European continent", added the same British specialist.

Last traces of the Neanderthals, who lived in Europe for about 300,000 years were discovered in caves in southern Spain and Gibraltar.

According to Paul Mellars, blow could be given a cold wave. The disappearance of Neanderthal man may have been "accelerated by a sudden deterioration of the climate on the European continent 40,000 years ago," said Mellars.