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Placing late Neanderthals in a climatic context

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  • P. C. Tzedakis

    (Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds
    University of the Aegean)

  • K. A. Hughen

    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA)

  • I. Cacho

    (GRC Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona)

  • K. Harvati

    (Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)

Abstract

Under the weather Attempts to place stone-age events in climatic context are hampered by the difficulty of calibrating the radiocarbon calendar beyond 21,000 radiocarbon years ago, and the lack of a 'master' chronology for climate events. But there is a way round this problem: radiocarbon years can be related to palaeoclimate via the excellent Cariaco Basin deep-sea record. In this way, the disappearance of Neanderthals in Europe can be related to known climatic events. Applying this analysis to dates linked to Neanderthal artefacts from Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar, suggests that they survived there up to the onset of a major environmental shift.

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  • P. C. Tzedakis & K. A. Hughen & I. Cacho & K. Harvati, 2007. "Placing late Neanderthals in a climatic context," Nature, Nature, vol. 449(7159), pages 206-208, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:449:y:2007:i:7159:d:10.1038_nature06117
    DOI: 10.1038/nature06117
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    1. William E Banks & Francesco d'Errico & A Townsend Peterson & Masa Kageyama & Adriana Sima & Maria-Fernanda Sánchez-Goñi, 2008. "Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 3(12), pages 1-8, December.

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