WHAT IF

THE FIRST TAMED ANIMAL WAS THE ARCHAIC HUMAN

What if a Neanderthal fell in love with an enemy modern human, still alive after a raid, where the rest of her people were killed?

That seems to me to be an extremely rare possibility.

But there were many tens of thousands of small encounters like that, over 10,000 years, from 50,000+- to 40,000+- years ago, while Neanderthals were gradually being wiped out and going extinct. 10,000 years, itself, is a very very long time. Many scarcely imaginable things must have happened. One can imagine many different scenarios.