
2,000 miles through rivers and ice: Mapping neanderthals’ hidden superhighways across eurasia
Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern Eurasia between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But the routes they took have long been a mystery — primarily because there are few archaeological sites connecting the two regions. In a new analysis, a team of anthropologists…