[HTML][HTML] Long genetic and social isolation in Neanderthals before their extinction

L Slimak, T Vimala, A Seguin-Orlando, L Metz… - Cell genomics, 2024 - cell.com
Neanderthal genomes have been recovered from sites across Eurasia, painting an
increasingly complex picture of their populations' structure that mostly indicates that late …

Optimal linear estimation models predict 1400–2900 years of overlap between Homo sapiens and Neandertals prior to their disappearance from France and northern …

I Djakovic, A Key, M Soressi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Recent fossil discoveries suggest that Neandertals and Homo sapiens may have co-existed
in Europe for as long as 5 to 6000 years. Yet, evidence for their contemporaneity at any …

[HTML][HTML] The earliest unambiguous neanderthal engravings on cave walls: La Roche-Cotard, Loire Valley, France

JC Marquet, TH Freiesleben, KJ Thomsen, AS Murray… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Here we report on Neanderthal engravings on a cave wall at La Roche-Cotard (LRC) in
central France, made more than 57±3 thousand years ago. Following human occupation …

A symbolic Neanderthal accumulation of large herbivore crania

E Baquedano, JL Arsuaga, A Pérez-González… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
This work examines the possible behaviour of Neanderthal groups at the Cueva Des-
Cubierta (central Spain) via the analysis of the latter's archaeological assemblage …

The intrusive nature of the Châtelperronian in the Iberian Peninsula

J Rios-Garaizar, E Iriarte, LJ Arnold… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Multiple factors have been proposed to explain the disappearance of Neandertals between
ca. 50 and 40 kyr BP. Central to these discussions has been the identification of new techno …

Worldwide research trends on Neanderthals

JL Guil‐Guerrero… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Research on Neanderthals is a topic of growing interest and it may even be considered that
this subject will get more attention in the future. The demise and diets of the various …

A new insight of the MIS 3 Dansgaard-Oeschger climate oscillations in western Europe from the study of a Belgium isotopically equilibrated speleothem

M Peral, M Marchegiano, S Verheyden… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 records abrupt transitions from cold stadial to
temperate interstadial climate conditions, termed Dansgaard-Oeschger (DO) events …

Evidence for deliberate burial of the dead by Homo naledi

LR Berger, T Makhubela, K Molopyane, A Krüger… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
In this study we describe new results of excavations in the Dinaledi Subsystem of the Rising
Star cave system, South Africa. In two areas within the Hill Antechamber and the Dinaledi …

Growing up in the Ice Age: Fossil and archaeological evidence of the lived lives of Plio-Pleistocene children

A Nowell - 2021 - torrossa.com
Do we need an archaeology of mothering? For prehistoric periods, I would argue, we need
to challenge notions of parenting and child care that may subconsciously shape …

Us and them: How to reconcile archaeological and biological data at the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe?

N Teyssandier - Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Between ca. 50,000 and 35,000 years ago, one of the most profound upheavals in
the history of humanity occurred with the replacement of the so-called “archaic” groups …