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Iran's Zagros Mountains may have been the best place for humans to meet Neanderthals

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Archaeologists from Germany 's University of Cologne used genetic, archaeological, topographical, and ecological data to narrow down the location of Neanderthals in the Zagros Mountains of Iran .

The region is where the environmental conditions that best suit modern humans and those best suited to our now extinct cousins overlap.

A single 65,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth, associated with a collection of stone tools, supports the research.

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