article_snippet: Now scientists believe scientists have ruled out one of the major theories for what triggered the extinction of the Neanderthals.
article_snippet: Neanderthals may have created and worn the world's first jewellery 130,000 years ago, according to scientists.
article_snippet: The findings add to mounting evidence that Neanderthals were not the slow-witted and primitive creatures Neanderthals are often portrayed as.
article_snippet: Instead Neanderthals say that it was likely to be competition with modern humans that led to the demise of the Neanderthals.
article_snippet: Work at five sites in the Mediterranean indicates that anatomically modern humans were established in these locations by then as well.'
article_snippet: Anthropologists have for decades debated the possible causes for the extinction of Neanderthals around 40,000 years ago.
article_snippet: Recent research by scientists at the ANO Laboratory of Prehistory in St. Petersburg, Russia has helped support this view.
highlights_snippet: Competition with modern humans was most likely candidate, say scientists .