The results of the work by Djakovic et al. are in line with the data we have already published in Plos One (2018) where, after obtaining almost 50 new radiocarbon dates by ultrafiltration and applying Bayesian models, we were able to observe the same overlap between the Neanderthal populations carrying Châtelperronian technology and the first groups of modern humans in northern Spain.   

Recently, our study in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022) shows, among other things, how the spatio-temporal replacement of Neanderthal populations by modern humans occurred throughout the Iberian Peninsula. 

The paper published in Scientific Reports deals with a topical issue that is, in some respects, the subject of much debate. The available data have been used, which, in principle, are of the highest quality. Appropriate statistical models have also been used to process the data and the general conclusion is very interesting and will have to be assessed in detail in order to definitively establish the Neanderthal/Sapiens transition in France and the Iberian Peninsula. 

However, the incorporation of sites from the Iberian Peninsula outside the northern area is missing in order to have a complete view of the phenomenon, since the so-called "Ebro frontier" seems not to be feasible. On the other hand, no mention is made of the important taphonomic problems that are being detected in the sites, which affect both the interstratigraphic contamination and the entity of the sites under analysis.