Before the great [Neander] replacement, some of that parahuman community were friendlier than they'd become. Welcome to Cro-Timshemet; where, when you came for dinner, you got to leave again.
The site is in Israel, which surprised me inasmuch that t-X-t pattern reads as Tamazight. Not that Afro-Asiatic was anything like a thing then-and-there. I did know that Neanders and this branch of African (i.e. us) shared space but not that they would share a cave.
I don't know if any cave art features Neanders and Africans holding hands under a rainbow. They did share, around that cave, a religion; and hunted together.
The era went from the Eemian/MIS5e - 130kya - until 80k. The cave is 100k. These ranges look rough so I'm devolving to "kya", anchored in AD 1950, rather than kBC as I prefer. This is all certainly long enough that the postAfricans would have adapted to the Mediterranean climate as against the African. Although genetics be hard from this deep intervention of time.
I expect taboos against much racial mixing on account the genetics were going to be difficult. Possible they worked together fine however, each with their own specialties. In hunts the Neanders could crouch in the ambush position with the postAfricans running the prey down.
It all failed in the end and did not result in the two populations or their hybrids contributing much to general out-of-Africa later.
BACKDATE 4/25 with some hats to be tipped in the Bluefishcake Discord direction.
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