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Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France
Slimak, Ludovic Zanolli, Clément Higham, Tom Frouin, Marine Schwenninger, Jean-Luc Arnold, Lee J Demuro, Martina Douka, Katerina Mercier, Norbert Guérin, Gilles
Slimak, Ludovic
Zanolli, Clément
Higham, Tom
Frouin, Marine
Schwenninger, Jean-Luc
Arnold, Lee J
Demuro, Martina
Douka, Katerina
Mercier, Norbert
Guérin, Gilles
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2022-02-09
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2021-06-11
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Determining the extent of overlap between modern humans and other hominins in Eurasia, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, is fundamental to understanding the nature of their interactions and what led to the disappearance of archaic hominins. Apart from a possible sporadic pulse recorded in Greece during the Middle Pleistocene, the first settlements of modern humans in Europe have been constrained to ~45,000 to 43,000 years ago. Here, we report hominin fossils from Grotte Mandrin in France that reveal the earliest known presence of modern humans in Europe between 56,800 and 51,700 years ago. This early modern human incursion in the Rhône Valley is associated with technologies unknown in any industry of that age outside Africa or the Levant. Mandrin documents the first alternating occupation of Neanderthals and modern humans, with a modern human fossil and associated Neronian lithic industry found stratigraphically between layers containing Neanderthal remains associated with Mousterian industries.
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Ludovic Slimak et al. ,Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France.Sci. Adv.8,eabj9496(2022).DOI:10.1126/sciadv.abj9496
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Copyright © 2022 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. The attached file is the published version of the article.
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2375-2548
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