The late populations of the evolved Homo neanderthal (i.e. H. erectus) lived in Western Europe at least until 30 000 BC. (St. Césaire in France, Zafaraya in Spain) as well as in Central Asia (Techik Tach, Uzbekistan).

At the same period lived a similar humanoid having Cro-Magnoids temporal bone in association with an occidental Mousterian culture (Darrai Kurr, Hindu Kush, Afghanistan). After the late Homo neanderthalensis hybridized in Europe with modern Homo sapiens, he quickly became the dominant specie (and our ancestor) whereas the other disappeared.

Necessarily the extinction of the ancient European populations is more recent than 30 000 years BC and occurred with different timings, from Western to Eastern Europe.

Probably the evolution of Cro-Magnoids, allochthonous or autochthonous, deviated from the older and archaic populations which became relic. But we do not know when the last groups of the relic populations disappeared and what occurred in Central Asia. In this view the wild men can be the descent of the soanian-mousterian civilization of Markansou.