There is some more evidence of neanderthal human interbreeding.
"We present the results of systematic comparisons and analysis of the adult
male crania from the Mladec Caves in Moravia, Czech Republic, discovered
between 1882 and 1922. Archaeological associations and the geological
circumstances date these remains to the earlier Aurignacian of Central
Europe. The Mladec male crania show a mixture of features, some resembling
Neandertals and others resembling more recent Late Pleistocene Europeans.
From a systematic analysis of these features, a hypothesis of ancestry is
evaluated for the sample, as this addresses issues of the fate of the
European Neandertals and the origin of recent Europeans. We compare a
battery of anatomical features and metric traits found in the Mladec males
with the males from two potentially ancestral samples, Skhul/Qafzeh and
earlier European Neandertals. Most data were taken on the original
specimens by the authors. Some features previously identified as Neandertal
autapomorphies occur in the Mladec males, indicating genetic contributions
of Neandertals to these groups (a finding we reconcile with the mtDNA
recovered from the Feldhofer cave Neandertal). Yet, our analyses suggest
that Neandertals are unlikely to be the unique ancestors of these early
Europeans. We show that it is not possible to exclude either the
Skhul/Qafzeh or the European Neandertal samples from the ancestry of the
Mladec sample."
Milford H. Wolpoff, David W. Frayer, Martin Oliva and Jan Jelínek "The
Mladec males: Aurignacian crania from Moravia"
Abstracts for the Paleoanthropology Society Meeting, The University of
Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., April 4-5, 2000
If they interbred with us, then they are us.
glenn
Foundation, Fall and Flood
Adam, Apes and Anthropology
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