Neanderthals: Their Culture & Place in European Cultural Memory

In this video we cover what is known about Neanderthal culture, and where I believe they fit into European cultural memory and lore. If there really was a time when Neanderthal man and European man shared space and interacted, there should be some cultural memory, even if in the form of distorted oral traditions, of these interactions. I believe I have found what it is, and this video includes my logic as well as an explanation of the thought process which originally let me to this conclusion. This video is actually part two of our discussion about Neanderthals, so if you missed part one it would be ideal to watch that first, however, this video can also be watched as a standalone.

Because I was limited by character space in the description, I decided to list all my sources in the video at the end. Below are some links to downloadable PDFs, but for the full list of sources you will need to see the credits at the end:

“Past human expansions shaped the spatial pattern of Neanderthal ancestry” - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg9817 (downloadable as PDF)

“Enrichment of a subset of Neanderthal polymorphisms in autistic probands and siblings” - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-024-02593-7.epdf?sharing_token=1PQjOklgR8FyM-PjITM9s9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0O3kbeYKWqEAMKUvrp2vH47-kw6y-l4n0ljvnqGSDtp3W1oEeoxYhci6-uMhyZQnnrVHeun-5NvbLRWhCvnQyKioNc0A27amZCt4C2w889VaZJfCS0to6xwyxpghkP2B_Y%3D

Nibelungenlied - https://www.yorku.ca/inpar/nibelung_armour.pdf