| Literature DB >> 16971951 |
Clive Finlayson1, Francisco Giles Pacheco, Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal, Darren A Fa, José María Gutierrez López, Antonio Santiago Pérez, Geraldine Finlayson, Ethel Allue, Javier Baena Preysler, Isabel Cáceres, José S Carrión, Yolanda Fernández Jalvo, Christopher P Gleed-Owen, Francisco J Jimenez Espejo, Pilar López, José Antonio López Sáez, José Antonio Riquelme Cantal, Antonio Sánchez Marco, Francisco Giles Guzman, Kimberly Brown, Noemí Fuentes, Claire A Valarino, Antonio Villalpando, Christopher B Stringer, Francisca Martinez Ruiz, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto.
Abstract
The late survival of archaic hominin populations and their long contemporaneity with modern humans is now clear for southeast Asia. In Europe the extinction of the Neanderthals, firmly associated with Mousterian technology, has received much attention, and evidence of their survival after 35 kyr bp has recently been put in doubt. Here we present data, based on a high-resolution record of human occupation from Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar, that establish the survival of a population of Neanderthals to 28 kyr bp. These Neanderthals survived in the southernmost point of Europe, within a particular physiographic context, and are the last currently recorded anywhere. Our results show that the Neanderthals survived in isolated refuges well after the arrival of modern humans in Europe.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16971951 DOI： 10.1038/nature05195
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nature ISSN： 0028-0836 Impact factor: 49.962