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The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
- Source :
- Università degli studi di Ferrara-IRIS
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Abstract
- The Protoaurignacian culture is pivotal to the debate about the timing of the arrival of modern humans in western Europe and the demise of Neandertals. However, which group is responsible for this culture remains uncertain. We investigated dental remains associated with the Protoaurignacian. The lower deciduous incisor from Riparo Bombrini is modern human, based on its morphology. The upper deciduous incisor from Grotta di Fumane contains ancient mitochondrial DNA of a modern human type. These teeth are the oldest human remains in an Aurignacian-related archaeological context, confirming that by 41,000 calendar years before the present, modern humans bearing Protoaurignacian culture spread into southern Europe. Because the last Neandertals date to 41,030 to 39,260 calendar years before the present, we suggest that the Protoaurignacian triggered the demise of Neandertals in this area.
- Subjects :
- genome sequence
Molecular Sequence Data
Socio-culturale
Context (language use)
Human type
Biology
Extinction, Biological
DNA, Mitochondrial
NO
Neanderthal
Paleontology
stomatognathic system
Animals
Humans
Base sequence
Dental Enamel
Phylogeny
Neanderthals
adaptive shift
Extinction
Genome
Multidisciplinary
Base Sequence
Animal
Dental enamel
human climate interaction, genome sequence, adaptive shift
Deciduous
Demise
DNA
Biological
Mitochondrial
Incisor
Animals, Archaeology, Base Sequence, DNA, Mitochondrial, Dental Enamel, Genome, Mitochondrial, Humans, Incisor, Molecular Sequence Data, Neanderthals, Tooth, Deciduous, Extinction, Biological, Phylogeny, Multidisciplinary, Medicine
Archaeology
Western europe
Genome, Mitochondrial
Ethnology
Medicine
Tooth, Deciduou
human climate interaction
Tooth
Human
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Università degli studi di Ferrara-IRIS
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9102a9ce0a980259ca49c99dc0531c82