Ella Al-Shamahi

And there are some other places as well.

And then they just disappeared and the Neanderthals came back to the site.

Isn't that remarkable?

And then basically you see this decline and it's just fascinating.

It's only a very few thousand years that you get it where we just kind of, and you can probably tell that I'm avoiding dates here because I am, I just, I'm so stuck on dates.

I feel so frustrated by it because I think it really helps.

You guys, you know, the listeners and the audience kind of visualize stuff.

But the frustrating thing is we just the dates keep changing.

And also we keep hearing rumors that the dates are about to change again.

So, I mean, not particularly in this case, but we just know it's a thing.

But I will say when I talk about overlaps, you know, I'm not talking like, you know, 30,000 years.

I'm talking much, much, much less than that.

And then basically, the Neanderthals just slowly just disappear.

There's like this, you know, or if you want to look at the German case, it seems like a crash, but generally speaking, they just disappear.

No, in my head it was the game show where it's like the noise of, you know, when you've like struck gold.

And it's like, right answer.

Anyway, sorry, that was my sound effect.

Okay, so if you were to put a hundred paleoanthropologists in a room and ask them...

why the Neanderthals went extinct, it would be hilarious because the Venn diagrams would be everywhere.

But anyway, and there's always like one person that's not even within the Venn diagram.