NEANDERTHAL HIDEOUT

in a region called Zagorje, northwest of Zagreb, Croatia, some 130,000 years ago during a warm period that is pretty much like today. As a result, they were there for many generations and left the largest skeletal evidence found anywhere in the world. This enabled reconstruction of their bodies and communal life recreated in France and Israel which is now displayed in a wonderful new museum set into a hillside in Krapina... ( Homo Erectus) knew how to make fire a million years ago and lived in a strip of land stretching from Africa all the way to China. It seemingly disappeared only about 150 thousand years ago. We, the modern humans, it is believed, appeared in Africa about 400 thousand years ago. When we came to Europe about 30,000 years ago we found that we were not the first to arrive. There were humans already there. These humans we call Neanderthals, after their habitat in Germany by the river Neander, obviously came to Europe before us over 200,000 years earlier. Then about..