Ella Al-Shamahi

But they just seemed to be able to cope with that harsher climate better than us.

And we do generally see a pattern of that with the Neanderthals.

Don't get me wrong, the Neanderthals, also when the climate got bad, you would notice them, you know, more in the south, for example.

But they were still able to cope with those climates a bit better than us.

And then sometime after 54, 55,000 years, the tide starts very, very, very slowly changing.

And it's really difficult to square it all up because, I mean, there was some research coming out of Germany, for example, that was showing that the Neanderthal sites in Germany were having a heyday from like 40-something thousand years to, you know, for 10, 20, I think it was probably until about 70,000 years.

And there were so many sites in Germany, etc., etc., and suddenly there was this complete crash.

So it's also really difficult, like it turns out it's very difficult to stalk ancient people because it's really hard to get demographic data and to be really sure.

But what we do see is this pattern.

We see this pattern of us being in Europe, hanging on for a few thousand years and then just disappearing.

And you get it actually in Ludwig's site, actually.

You get this one layer where the technology just changes.

And it's homo sapien technology.

And it's interesting because Ludwig was looking at this technology going, this isn't the technology in all the other layers.

The layers above and below.

The layers above and below this layer are the same kind of technology.

And then suddenly you get this alien technology in the middle.

And then they found a tooth.

And when they did the DNA analysis on the tooth, it was a Homo sapiens tooth.

So they realized they had an incursion of Homo sapiens in this one site in France.