Additional links (and better I hope) to the Archaeology reference above:

[phys.org]
May 11, 2020 : "New research determines our species created earliest modern artifacts in Europe"
The paper:
[www.nature.com]
Hublin, J., Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V. et al. Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria. Nature 581, 299–302 (2020). [doi.org]

Nothing at Bacho Kiro Cave that refutes this conclusion:

[phys.org]
"According to new supercomputer model simulations, only competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens can explain the rapid demise of Neanderthals around 43 to 38 thousand years ago. "