Dawn of a continent

• Autores: Colin Barras
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3028, 2015, págs. 28-33
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • It was possibly curiosity or wonder that the young Neanderthal felt during his first encounter with their species. Arguably, it should have been fear: a chance meeting like this could easily have happened about 45,000 years ago in a forest somewhere between Poland and England. When it did, it would have the dawn of a new human conquest. Until that point, Europe had been the exclusive playground of Neanderthals. Homo sapiens, meanwhile, had left Africa, marched across Arabia into East and South-East Asia, sailed to Australia. One group was on its way to Siberia, the Bering Strait and the promise of a New World. Here, Barras features the forebears of Western civilization