The Dark Truth of The Red-Haired Neanderthals of Europe

The deeper you look into the final Neanderthals of Europe, the stranger the story becomes, because the red haired Neanderthals of Spain and Italy did not belong to the oldest populations of western Europe at all, but to a younger expanding lineage that spread across a continent already filled with the ghosts of vanished Neanderthal worlds. Indeed, Something is wrong with the old image of Neanderthals as isolated cave people slowly fading into extinction in scattered corners of Europe. The more you dig into the genetic evidence coming out of Spain, France Belgium, Croatia, Germany, and northern Italy, the less stable that old picture becomes. Europe during the final chapter of the Neanderthals no longer looks like a continent occupied by ancient static tribes frozen in time. However, new evidence proves that Thorin from Grotte Mandrin, who was said to have been a late-surviving older Neanderthal actually lived over 100,000 years ago.