"Neanderthals might have held out in isolated refuges for thousands of years longer than previously thought, a team of scientists reported in the Web site of the journal Nature on Wednesday."
I've got news for them,they're still alive and well, holding out in isolated refuges just fine, and I happen to know this because I know some living breathing persons in the mountains of North Carolina who fit the description perfectly. See, you don't have spend thousands and thousands of dollars on scientific pooh-pah, all you have to do is just get out of your happy zone and go door to door in the backwoods of the Apalachians.