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The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

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  • Tom Higham

    (Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK)

  • Katerina Douka

    (Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK)

  • Rachel Wood

    (Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
    Research School for Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia)

  • Christopher Bronk Ramsey

    (Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK)

  • Fiona Brock

    (Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK)

  • Laura Basell

    (School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP), Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK)

  • Marta Camps

    (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College Park, 4102 Jiménez Hall, University of Maryland)

  • Alvaro Arrizabalaga

    (Research Team on Prehistory (IT-622-13), IKERBASQUE, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Tomás y Valiente Street, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)

  • Javier Baena

    (Departimento Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain)

  • Cecillio Barroso-Ruíz

    (Fundación Instituto de Investigación de Prehistoria y Evolución Humana, Plaza del Coso 1, 14900 Lucena, Córdoba, Spain)

  • Christopher Bergman

    (URS, 525 Vine Street, Suite 1800, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, USA)

  • Coralie Boitard

    (8 rue des Sapins, 67100 Strasbourg, France)

  • Paolo Boscato

    (della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy)

  • Miguel Caparrós

    (Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 75013 París, France)

  • Nicholas J. Conard

    (Abt. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Universität Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
    Tübingen Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoecology, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany)

  • Christelle Draily

    (Service public de Wallonie, DGO4, Service de l′Archéologie, rue des Martyrs, 22, B-6700 Arlon, Belgium)

  • Alain Froment

    (Laboratoire d’Éco-antropologie et Ethnobiologie, Musée de l’Homme, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France)

  • Bertila Galván

    (Arqueología, Antropología e Historia Antigua, Universidad de La Laguna, Campus de Guajara, 38071 Tenerife, Spain)

  • Paolo Gambassini

    (della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy)

  • Alejandro Garcia-Moreno

    (Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Schloss Monrepos, D-56567 Neuwied, Germany
    The Cantabria International Institute for Prehistoric Research (IIIPC), University of Cantabria, Avda. Los Castros, s/n. 39005 Santander, Spain)

  • Stefano Grimaldi

    (Laboratorio di Preistoria ‘B. Bagolini’, Università degli Studi di Trento, via Tommaso Gar, 14 I-38122 Trento, Italy)

  • Paul Haesaerts

    (Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Brigitte Holt

    (University of Massachusetts, 103 Machmer Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA)

  • Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso

    (Research Team on Prehistory (IT-622-13), IKERBASQUE, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Tomás y Valiente Street, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain)

  • Arthur Jelinek

    (School of Anthropology, Emil W. Haury Building, University of Arizona)

  • Jesús F. Jordá Pardo

    (UNED. Paseo Senda del Rey 7, 20840, Madrid, Spain)

  • José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández

    (UNED. Paseo Senda del Rey 7, 20840, Madrid, Spain)

  • Anat Marom

    (Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
    The Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel)

  • Julià Maroto

    (Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat de Girona, pl. Ferrater Mora 1, 17071 Girona, Spain)

  • Mario Menéndez

    (UNED. Paseo Senda del Rey 7, 20840, Madrid, Spain)

  • Laure Metz

    (CNRS, UMR 5608, TRACES, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, Maison de la Recherche, 5 Allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse, Cedex 9, France)

  • Eugène Morin

    (Trent University, Life and Health Sciences Building Block C, 2140 East Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8, Canada)

  • Adriana Moroni

    (della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy)

  • Fabio Negrino

    (Filosofia e Storia, Università di Genova, Via Balbi 2, Genova I-16126, Italy)

  • Eleni Panagopoulou

    (Ephoreia of Paleoanthropology of Southern Greece, Ardittou 34B, Athens 11636, Greece)

  • Marco Peresani

    (Università di Ferrara, Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, Corso Ercole I d’Este 32, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy)

  • Stéphane Pirson

    (Service public de Wallonie, DGO4, Direction de l′Archéologie, rue des Brigades d′Irlande, 1, B-5100 Jambes, Belgium)

  • Marco de la Rasilla

    (Universidad de Oviedo, c/Teniente Alfonso Martínez, s/n, 33011 Oviedo, Spain)

  • Julien Riel-Salvatore

    (Université de Montréal, C. P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Quebec H3T 1N8, Canada)

  • Annamaria Ronchitelli

    (della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy)

  • David Santamaria

    (Universidad de Oviedo, c/Teniente Alfonso Martínez, s/n, 33011 Oviedo, Spain)

  • Patrick Semal

    (Service of Scientific Heritage, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 1000 Brussels, Belgium)

  • Ludovic Slimak

    (CNRS, UMR 5608, TRACES, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, Maison de la Recherche, 5 Allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse, Cedex 9, France)

  • Joaquim Soler

    (Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat de Girona, pl. Ferrater Mora 1, 17071 Girona, Spain)

  • Narcís Soler

    (Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat de Girona, pl. Ferrater Mora 1, 17071 Girona, Spain)

  • Aritza Villaluenga

    (Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Schloss Monrepos, D-56567 Neuwied, Germany)

  • Ron Pinhasi

    (UCD Earth Institute and School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland)

  • Roger Jacobi

    (Franks House, The British Museum, London N1 5QJ, UK
    The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK)

Abstract

Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating is used to construct a chronology of Neanderthal disappearance, showing that Neanderthals overlapped with anatomically modern humans for between about 2,000 and 5,000 years.

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  • Tom Higham & Katerina Douka & Rachel Wood & Christopher Bronk Ramsey & Fiona Brock & Laura Basell & Marta Camps & Alvaro Arrizabalaga & Javier Baena & Cecillio Barroso-Ruíz & Christopher Bergman & Cor, 2014. "The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance," Nature, Nature, vol. 512(7514), pages 306-309, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:512:y:2014:i:7514:d:10.1038_nature13621
    DOI: 10.1038/nature13621
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