Posted: Apr 14, 2020 8:07 pm
by Spearthrower
zoon wrote:
Thanks, so many recent discoveries show neanderthals weren't obviously any less capable than modern humans, I was wondering what the possibilities were.



Capable, artistic, curious, probably religious in some way - but also specialized in a biological sense, and apparently wholly lacking some types of quite rudimentary technology like bone hooks and needles. Regardless of whether European Neanderthals were already struggling from climatic changes and loss of habitat and typical prey species, and regardless of whether they and EMH were antagonistic to one and other, I think EMH technology still gave them a competitive edge in every imaginable scenario. It was a similar paradigm to the conquest of the New World, only slower and less systematic. EMH just swamped them.