Resumen de Decline and fall of the Neanderthals
Neanderthals came to Europe some 300,000 years ago and left distinctive "Mousterian" artefacts. What has not been clear is when and how they died out. Tom Higham of the University of Oxford and his colleagues used improved techniques to date material from 40 key sites in Europe, spanning the period when humans reached Europe and Neanderthals vanished. They found that every possible or definite Neanderthal site--Mousterian and Chatelperronian--was at least 40,000 years old.
