First genocide of human beings occurred 30,000 years ago

The results announced were a real shock. As it turned out, evolution was able to produce several different types of mankind, and Darwin’s evolution theory was smashed. It came to light that homo sapiens became dominating over the planet not through a peaceful merger with less developed congeners but with aggression and war, through liquidation of another civilized people.

Author of popular books about origin of humans Professor Jean-Jacques Hublin from the University of Bordeaux is an advocate of the new approach in the Neanderthal men study. He explains why the revelation about liquidation of Neanderthal men by homo sapiens turned out to be so shocking. For many years it was believed that Homo sapiens was a synonym for culture, and the scheme was quite agreeable for many. But suddenly archeological digs demonstrated that Neanderthal men were no primitive semi-beasts as it had been believed. They had culture of their own. At the same time, many researchers began to ascribe the relation of Neanderthal men to homo sapiens. They were trying to prove that Neanderthal men were just a variety of euhominds.

It is a problem why the idea of existence of another mankind with a culture different from ours is so much disagreeable for some people. Since WWII anthropologists have been trying to demonstrate that all people including Neanderthal men are equal. It seems that they want to atone the fault of researchers whose teaching about the existence of various races was employed by the Nazi ideology. The same logic together with the post-colonial syndrome makes some experts deny cannibalism with Neanderthal men and our ancestors, Cro-Magnon men. The idea that a more developed variety of people liquidated other people in the course of evolution to seize domination over the planet is the revival of racist concepts to these researchers.

Today it is a real taboo for anthropologists to state that the Neanderthal culture differed from the culture of our ancestors and was more primitive, that they borrowed many of technical achievements and skills from Cro-Magnon men. To say so sounds like declaring Neanderthal men underdeveloped creatures.

Some historians state that Neanderthal men quite independently generated culture that was similar to that of Cro-Magnon men. They say it was either shortly before our ancestors came to Europe or immediately after the intrusion. Meanwhile, the two kinds of people were developing independently for 400,000 years.

Archeological facts reveal that Cro-Magnon men and Neanderthal men were living side by side in Europe for a long period of time. Each group had its territory for hunting and never broke the borders. Homo sapiens could eat not only meat and were effective in the use of their grounds. Neanderthal hunters had to leave their sites in search of game, but when they were back home they found their camps destroyed and occupied by strangers.

It is likely that homo sapiens managed to beat the strong and smart rival thanks to their ability to communicate and coordinate activity of separate groups in fighting the enemy. Neanderthal men were less sociable and were reluctant to contact.

Translated by Maria Gousseva
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