Modern humans populated Europe from the east?

[Brian G Turner]

Read an interesting suggestion that the first early modern humans came to Europe from the east:

Archaeological skull fragments from Ukraine reveal early modern humans came from the East

How did our species, Homo sapiens, arrive in Western Europe? Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, our new study analyzes two skull fragments dating back between 37,000 and 36,000 years to conclude that our ancestors came from Eastern Europe and migrated westwards. These two individuals...

phys.org

specifically after a major supervolcano volcanic eruption in Italy around 39,000 BC is claimed to have wiped out existing Neanderthal and other hominid populations in Europe:

Phlegraean Fields - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If I've read anything about this before it's certainly slipped my mind, so am posting to help serve as a reminder, because normally I don't see this supervolcano eruption mentioned in general discussion about the extinction of Neanderthals.

 

[Bren G]

I'm no expert by any means but I have been dabbling in the genetic research which leads me to believe the title appears to be an overly simplistic origin story. There were multiple waves of immigration into western Europe. For example, genetic studies show Haplogroup R coming out of central Asia into present day Ukraine, through the Balkans and also France. Haploid Group I is another link that took the route through the Mediterranean, up through Spain all the way up to Scandinavia over 23,000 years ago. There are many others.

 

[paranoid marvin]

Modern humans have been around over 200,000 years. That's a long time for them to migrate and populate/depopulate regions/continents several dozen times.

 

[Omits]

Unlikely to have come from the West. Surely the only routes are east Europe or across the straits of Gibraltar. All getting more mixed up now with modern transport. Different social needs to long ago.

 

[JimC]

"supervolcano eruption mentioned in general discussion about the extinction of Neanderthals".

And an earlier wave of us. We migrated into western Europe several times. The last ones stuck.