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Neandertal interaction with Cro-Magnons

Neanderthals apparently co-existed with anatomically modern humans beginning some 100,000 years ago.

However, about 45,000 years ago, at about the time that stoneworking techniques similar to those of Cro-Magnon people appeared in Europe, Neanderthals began to be displaced.

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