Neanderthals and modern humans interbred 'at the crossroads of human migrations' in Iran, study finds
When you purchase through links on our site , we may earn an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it work . Modern human being and Neanderthals clearly interbred , genetic grounds shows , but exactly where and when has continue murky . Now , a new study pinpoints where one wave of those face-off occurred — the Zagros Mountains in what is now mostly Iran . " The geographics of the Iranian Plateau has been almost at the intersection of human migrations , " lead authorSaman Guran , an archaeologist in the Institute for Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Cologne in Germany , told Live Science in an e-mail ....