Neanderthals and modern humans split with a common ancestor about 500,000 years ago, and Neanderthals left Africa for Europe and Asia after modern humans joined hundreds of thousands of years. There, Neanderthals dispersed to Spain and Siberia. Our prehistoric cousins may have initially arrived in Asia about 190,000 to 130,000 years ago, and another migration to the central and eastern Eurasia could have been between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But how did they get there?
Since there is not enough archaeological evidence to reconstruct its migration path, the team of anthropologists has turned to computer models. Their simulation maps possible routes that Neanderthals might reach Asia along the way and suggests that by traveling in warmer times and traveling after the valley, they may travel about 2,000 miles (3,250 kilometers) in less than 2,000 years.
“Our findings suggest that while Neanderthals may soon cross Nordics, co-author of a study published in the journal Plos One yesterday said in a statement from New York University. “These findings provide important insights into ancient migration paths that are currently unsuccessful from archaeological records and reveal new clues about how computer simulations can help discover ancient migrations that shape human history.” Coco started his research among doctoral students at New York University and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Algarve.
She and her colleagues’ models caused temperatures, land rises, ancient rivers and glaciers. According to the statement, although scholars have previously used similar methods to simulate human and animal movements, anthropologists are the first to apply it to Neanderthals. In doing so, they discovered potential migration paths over two periods characterized by warm climates: approximately 125,000 years ago and 60,000 years ago. Using different paths in the valley will bring Neanderthals to the Siberian Altai Mountains in Eurasia within 2000. It is worth noting that these paths are consistent with known Neanderthal archaeological sites and the areas occupied by the Denisovans, and scientists know that Neanderthal intersect.
Another co-author of the study, associate professor at the Center for Human Origins Research at New York University, Neanderthals may have migrated thousands of kilometers from the Caucasus Mountains to Siberia in a period of 2,000 years. ” “Others speculate on the possibility of such rapid, long-distance migration based on genetic data, but this is difficult to prove due to the limited archaeological evidence in the region. Based on detailed computer simulations, it appears that this migration is an almost feasible result in landscape conditions during the warm climates of the past. ”
However, Coco and Iovita noted that their model does not consider all possible elements that may affect Neanderthal movements, such as resources, climate change, short-term weather patterns, vegetation preferences and previous occupations. Nevertheless, without archaeological records, computer simulations provide a viable way to track the footsteps of prehistorics, although it is not like the Nordic clinker ship sailing along Frigid Norwegian Coast by searching for Viking migration routes in the Viking migration routes.
