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Whether Neanderthal* people died out before later Men took over, or whether the populations overlapped, is unclear;** but the changeover seems to have occurred c38,000bce to c33,000bce,*** in Europe, where Cro-Magnons succeeded the Neanderthals.**** There are# still groups of relatively pure Cro-Magnon ‘stock’#* in existence today.#**

Some at least of the Neanderthals buried their dead, and they may have performed rituals and used colours.#*** But the first examples of pre-historic art are Cro-Magnon.#****

*[See last previous entry]

**[No longer; the genetic evidence now seems clear that they overlapped and interbred]

***Ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica]: 965-6

****{cf [this ms entry, [Redbook7:336-337][19900926:1230b]{Prehistoric Circles (1) [continued (4)]}[25th September 1990],] 337 (top)}

#or were? <900927>

#*(or type) (900927>

(including in England; & the purest in the Canary Islands) <900927>

#**Ibid: 967

#***Ibid: 965

#****Ibid: 967

{(Aurignacian/Perigordian, c25,000bce)}

{– (E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 18:966)}

##{Is the Brassempouy girl (ivory head) theirs?

(Aurignacian/Gravettian, c22,000bce)}

{– (E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 26:45)}

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