For thousands of years, these Neanderthals were the most advanced animals in Europe. It wasn't until 30,000 or 350,000 years ago, as the climate warmed, that a more intelligent, knowledgeable, talking, cooperative animal of the same kind invaded Neanderthal territory from the south.
Newcomers drove Neanderthals out of caves and settlements and competed with them for the same food. They may have also provoked war, eventually killing the original inhabitants. These newcomers from the South or the East, whose origins we do not yet know for sure, are the original real people of the same blood as us. From an anatomic point of view, their skulls, thumbs, necks, and teeth are structurally identical to ours. In the caves of Cromagnon and Grimaldi, some broken bones have also been found. This is the earliest human remains ever found.
Cro-Romano. The left is based on the skull excavated from the French Cromagnes place, and the right is reconstructed according to the skull excavated from the French Komu Corbier place
In this way, human beings finally appeared on the rock record, and human history began at this time.
Horses, cattle and deer in ancient times were found in Lascaux Caves, France
Although the climate was very harsh at that time, the earth was getting closer and closer to the current situation. In Europe, icebergs of the Ice Age began to recede; In France and Spain, reindeer were gradually replaced by horses as grasses flourished. Mammoths also gradually decreased in southern Europe, eventually retreating to the north...
It's hard to determine where "real people" first appeared. However, in the summer of 1921, an interesting skull and many broken bones were found in Broken Hill, southern Africa. In all its characteristics, it appears to be the remains of a third kind of human being between Neanderthals and humans.
Compared with Neanderthals, their brains were large and small, and their skulls grew exactly as straight on the spine as humans. Teeth and bones are also similar to those of humans. But the face is very similar to that of an ape, with a high brow bone protruding and a bulge in the middle of the skull. The animals are actually already a real person, but they also have the Neanderthal face of an ape. This Rhodesian was clearly closer to the real human than the Neanderthals.
The Rhodesian skull may be the second type of subhuman series discovered after neanderthals. These sub-humans lived on Earth for a long time from the early glacial period to the real people— their common descendants, and perhaps their common burialrs. Judging only from the skull, rhodesians may not be a particularly ancient animal. For a long time there was no precise judgment on the age of its existence. This subhuman animal appears to have been active in southern Africa until modern times.
（H· G. Wells's "History of the World You Should Know" Reading Notes)