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Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe

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  • Clive Finlayson

    (The Gibraltar Museum
    University of Toronto at Scarborough)

  • Francisco Giles Pacheco

    (Museo Arqueologico de El Puerto Santa María)

  • Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal

    (Universidad de Huelva)

  • Darren A. Fa

    (The Gibraltar Museum)

  • José María Gutierrez López

    (Museo Municipal)

  • Antonio Santiago Pérez

    (Museo Arqueologico de El Puerto Santa María)

  • Geraldine Finlayson

    (The Gibraltar Museum)

  • Ethel Allue

    (Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Area de Prehistoria, Universidad Rovira i Virgili)

  • Javier Baena Preysler

    (Universidad Autonoma)

  • Isabel Cáceres

    (Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Area de Prehistoria, Universidad Rovira i Virgili)

  • José S. Carrión

    (Universidad de Murcia)

  • Yolanda Fernández Jalvo

    (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC))

  • Christopher P. Gleed-Owen

    (The Herpetological Conservation Trust, Bournemouth)

  • Francisco J. Jimenez Espejo

    (Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC-UGR)

  • Pilar López

    (Royal Holloway College, University of London)

  • José Antonio López Sáez

    (Instituto de Historia (CSIC))

  • José Antonio Riquelme Cantal

    (Universidad de Granada)

  • Antonio Sánchez Marco

    (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC))

  • Francisco Giles Guzman

    (Universidad de Cádiz)

  • Kimberly Brown

    (University of Cambridge)

  • Noemí Fuentes

    (Universidad de Murcia)

  • Claire A. Valarino

    (The Gibraltar Museum)

  • Antonio Villalpando

    (Universidad de Cádiz)

  • Christopher B. Stringer

    (The Natural History Museum)

  • Francisca Martinez Ruiz

    (Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC-UGR)

  • Tatsuhiko Sakamoto

    (Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)

Abstract

Rock on Identifying the precise point when a species went extinct is probably impossible. You can never be sure that a fossil is the very last of its kind. The extinction of the Neanderthals in Europe is a case in point, but Finlayson et al. have gone further than anyone in their study of the Neanderthal occupation of Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar, showing that Neanderthals occupied this most southerly point of Europe as recently as 28,000 years ago, long after Neanderthals elsewhere in southwest Europe appear to have become extinct.

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  • Clive Finlayson & Francisco Giles Pacheco & Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal & Darren A. Fa & José María Gutierrez López & Antonio Santiago Pérez & Geraldine Finlayson & Ethel Allue & Javier Baena Preysler & I, 2006. "Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe," Nature, Nature, vol. 443(7113), pages 850-853, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:443:y:2006:i:7113:d:10.1038_nature05195
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05195
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    1. João Cascalheira & Nuno Bicho, 2015. "On the Chronological Structure of the Solutrean in Southern Iberia," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(9), pages 1-21, September.

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