Most estimates maintain that the Americas were first populated 10-20,000 years ago, according to the Clovis-first model. Yet there is evidence humans may have been occupying the continents from as far back as 30,000 years ago. In a study, archaeologists analysed a remote cave in northwestern México containing stone tools crafted by humans that are up to 31,500 years old. Humans may well have been around in the Americas for that long, but the population boom wouldn’t occur until many aeons later.
This was around the time that I believe the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) to have gone extinct. We used to interbreed a reasonable amount with Neanderthals: we have 2-8% Neanderthal DNA today. The Neanderthals had lived in Eurasia until their extinction which came 30-40,000 years ago according to estimates and research. Most websites will tell you it happened 40,000 years ago, but this is not certain and to me, now, improbably early. Evidence was published in 2017 that indicated the continued presence of Neanderthals in the Iberian peninsula until 37,000 years ago. That said, stone tools that have been proposed to have been connected to Neanderthals have been found at Byzovaya (Бызовая) in the polar Ural region, dated to 31-34,000 years ago. To me it seems more likely that Neanderthals went extinct closer to 30,000 years ago. Why? Because it makes sense that this coincided with the population of the Americas and the invention of the Buzz-Concept infinity.
The Buzz-Concept infinity had enabled the Proto-Amerindians to re-connect with the full cognitive potency of our species. This had been partly cut off in the instinctively perceptive Orientalesques by setbacks like Neanderthal harassment and ostracisation by other peoples. People found it comforting to bully the Orientalesques, but when the Orientalesques learnt how to rise above their antics it sent alarm bells ringing. What could have happened to them to necessitate such a transformation in this hyper-sensitive group?
The Neanderthals, meanwhile, had imprinted on the Proto-Orientalesques, transfixed and entranced by their wit and sensitivity which they found just too precious. The Neanderthals were stronger than us, one beneficial trait which afforded them human mates. When the Proto-Orientalesques left Africa and moved into Eurasia, they were of course plagued and particularly troubled by Neanderthal intrusion. Their sensitivity made the match quite good: they weren’t repelled but rather compelled by the complementary Neanderthal brutishness. This trait also opened them up to a great deal of inner torment because of the issue, and they grew to despise the Neanderthals like everyone else for bringing shame on their race.
The Neanderthals irritated them so much they headed to the extremities of East Asia, setting up the Proto-Orientalesque heartland somewhere near the Sakhalin Gulf region in what is now Siberia, just south of the glaciers from the last ice age. Presumably the cold deterred them somewhat.
The Orientalesques set about cultivating their hereditary rationality so as to be better equipped, faster at making weapons and advancing tactics, partly to keep Neanderthal intrusions under control. Neanderthal populations had been decreasing ever since humans moved into Eurasia, since we had long been bloodthirsty for them. The last straw for people was when the passive Orientalesques turned around having become readily aggressive, without explanation. This was after the Buzz-Concept infinity had been invented and its legacy spread. Disturbance and frustration about the new threat posed by the Orientalesques caused people’s rage to boil over, bringing about the end for the last Neanderthals.
So, it was technically by genocide at the hands of H. sapiens that the Neanderthals went extinct. How we can be sure it was genocide? The Neanderthals were also a characteristically superior species, with plenty of evolutionary advantages that should have protected them from extinction. How else would it have happened, realistically?
Why did we hate them so much? We saw the worst of ourselves in them. They didn’t speak, which meant that we couldn’t use communication to mediate with them. They were stronger than us, like I said, and every intrusion was so utterly unbearably awful an experience that we resorted to genocide to be rid of it all.
A story of the power of communication? Hmm.
The Buzz-Concept Project 