were there no neanderthals in the americas?

Answer 1

Aaaargh. Toooo many jokes!!!!

Answer 2

No. Neanderthals lived largely in Europe and died out about 20,000-30,000 years ago. The first people did not make it to the Americas until 30,000 at the furthest end of the spectrum, but more likely it was closer to 15,000-12,000 years ago.

So the existence of Neanderthals barely overlapped with the population of the Americas at all.

Answer 3

I believe that the first humans arrived in the Americas via the land bridge where the Aleutian islands are now. They were **** sapiens.

Wikipedia says: "The Neanderthal (**** neanderthalensis) or Neandertal was a species of the **** genus that inhabited Europe and parts of western Asia. The first proto-Neanderthal traits appear in Europe as early as 350,000 years ago.[1] By 130,000 years ago, full blown Neanderthal characteristics had appeared and by 50,000 years ago, Neanderthals disappeared from Asia, although they did not reach extinction in Europe until 33,000 to 24,000 years ago, perhaps 15,000 years after **** sapiens had migrated into Europe."

This shows that the spread of **** neanderthalensis was quite small and never reached the American continent.

Since the two races purportedly coexisted for perhaps 15,000 years, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that the two genera actually cross bred in Europe, so there may (through immigration) be some neanderthal genes in certain sectors of the American population. Arguably, one sees traits of these genes surfacing from time to time, perhaps as a result of inbreeding.

Answer 4

There are a lot of reasons for all to many thing. First off America, is an island, We all have to know if there was there a way to get into America, Like land bridges etc. It is know that when America, Started to become inhabited by humans there were land bridges that were found to be in existence. We also know that land bridges come and go. For the dinosaurs got here some how. But as for human inhabitants to get here there had to be land bridges to make that kind of movements possible.

Answer 5

From the research I have done the Neanderthals were only in Europe. Although there was a caveman found in Arizona, if I remember correctly, and they called him SpiritCaveMan.

Answer 6

Look around this site for a bit. there are plenty of Neanderthals left!! :)

(Not as much restraint as first person!)

Answer 7

Nope. They were European. Although there was an ice age when they lived and if they had been more plentiful and spread they could have crossed land\ice bridges like the ancestors of Native Americans did.

Answer 8

They originated in the Neander Valley in France and never made it to the new world...and it is hypotisized were squeezed out by the Cro Magnon's who had superior technolgies and thus became better hunters and were able to spread more quickly and were able to adapt to differing climates better physically.