The initial Europeans that have been identified were Neanderthals
- 250'000 to - 30'000
Though there was already somebody around even before - 250'000. In approx.
30'000 some new tourists, who weren't Neanderthals but homos sapiehs
like us nowadays, turned up.
Scientists say that those ice age Europeans were shorter
than us (166cm guys and 154cm females), very strong and powerful, and
... that their brain was 12 % larger than a modern one ! Does that mean
that all of them were potential Einsteins ?
They were skilled hunters but it was difficult to hunt in those days
because they didn't have very efficient
weapons . .
Paleonthologists say that Neanderthals were certainly capable of speech
but their communication kills
were not as advanced as our own. They also seemed to lack an understanding
of abstract concepts
such as art . . . so, not yet the beginning of English !
