HBDChick alerted us to Charoula M. Fotiadou, Jesper Borre Pedersen, Hélène Rougier, and Cosimo Posth: a "diversification" event within the Neander community of Europe ~63kBC during Marine Isotope ("MIS")-3. That doesn't mean their genetics were becoming more diverse, through intermarriage with their neighbours. Oh no.
This is a demic replacement of mtDNA lineages, in favour of one lineage: an Aquitanian lineage, to be exact.
That means the Neanders of Aquitaine went out to conquer those neighbours' land, after which that group's women followed their warriors. What happened to those ex-neighbours, seems about what happened to the Omanis of Zanzibar in Africa Addio. Nice to know it's not just us "sapiens" doing it - to our Neander relatives, or to each other this time.
The victorious Aquitanians - "Mousterian", in material culture - carried on carryin' on for another 20ky. They saw off the Neronian colony and, 43kBC, even Bacho Kiro. But also 43kBC, came the Laschamps flip and the Châtelperronians; the Neanders subsequently endured three millennia of population decline. Generally thought to be Sapiens' first (successful) "Cro-Magnon" intrusion.
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