How far north did Neanderthals get?

How far north did Neanderthals get? Did Neanderthals ever reach Scandinavia, Denmark, Sweden? It's an interesting question because we often think of Neanderthals as cold adapted. However answering it is very difficult.

I chatted to the team at NeanderEDGE who are working on answering this very problem.

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Just this morning my wife and I were having one of our discussions about how You Tube, like television itself in prior years, has become so much a Vast Wasteland. Then I glanced at my feed, shouted out "STEFAN MILO RELEASED A NEW VIDEO!", she came running, and for a bit more than half an hour, all was right with the world.

[tonnyvreeswijk]

In 2018 I found a Neanderthal scraper in a dirtbank in a park in The Hague, the Netherlands. It was wedged in a peace of a sand wall that was formed with seasand that was harvested in from the part of the North Sea where Doggerbank lies. I took it to the Museum of Oudheden in Leiden where they told me what it was and that it was the first Neanderthal tool found so high up in the Netherlands. I donated it to the museum.

[tommeakin]

Hearing that there might have only been 70, 000 of them around at a given time, and we're finding things over 100, 000 years later...that's mind blowing to me. The fact we find anything about them at all is stunning.

[stefanholmstrom]

Hi. I live in Finland. The ice age was nasty. We have one cave. And it's pathetic. Pls send more caves. Otherwise we can't find any neanderthal stuff.

[stainlesssteel]

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[naterandolph]

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[onacustomsurfboardsvalenci]

"Neanderthals: modern humanity cousins and part-time lovers" - Stefan Milosavljevich.
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[robertking]

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[RedstonerD]

Doggerland is amazing! There was a big exhibition on it in Leiden.
To make sure the sea doesn't sweep away all our beaches, something called "the sand engine" was created. They sucked up sand from the bottom of the sea and deposited it in a special shape on the beach. Now we can walk along the beach and find fossils from doggerland after high tide and stormy weather! An especially interesting piece that was found was this animal bone with a piece of a flint arrowhead inside it...

[isileroglu]

23:24 “the original brexit” you made my day!

[IainDavies-zl]

They got as far as Clacton and realised the Fish and Chips were no good.

[zeideerskine]

Daub and wattle buildings are easy to do and disintegrate into next to nothing. Flax grows in northern Germany and is easily processed into fibres that can be spun into yarn and knotted into fishing nets, corded into ropes, and used with bone needles for sewing leather and fur as well as turned into all kinds of clothing by nalbinding and crocheting with a wooden hooked needle is probably something that would occur naturally to anyone who ever made a fishing net. Macramee is another natural technique to evolve as soon as fibre has been spun into yarn. If your main prey is elephants, you need a lot of people to feed with one kill or have great means of food preservation and storage. That amount of food will take a lot of people to do processing, a lot of salt and wood for smoking and cooking, storage containers and a rather sedentary society as hauling such amounts of food around would be impractical.

[lordportellen]

Fellow subscribers of Stefan, please remember to like his videos as well. You know, for the algorithm, but also to support and promote these fantastic videos. Cheers!

[laurap]

"Humanity's distant cousin and part time lover" 😂❤ perfect!

[Fisken]

Stefan: "Hello Denmark"
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[darthJ]

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[dukeon]

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