Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe

被引：300

作者：

Finlayson, Clive

Giles Pacheco, Francisco

Rodriguez-Vidal, Joaquin

Fa, Darren A.

Gutierrez Lopez, Jose Maria

Santiago Perez, Antonio

Finlayson, Geraldine

Allue, Ethel

Preysler, Javier Baena

Caceres, Isabel

Carrion, Jose S.

Fernandez Jalvo, Yolanda

Gleed-Owen, Christopher P.

Jimenez Espejo, Francisco J.

Lopez, Pilar

Lopez Saez, Jose Antonio

Riquelme Cantal, Jose Antonio

Sanchez Marco, Antonio

Giles Guzman, Francisco

Brown, Kimberly

Fuentes, Noemi

Valarino, Claire A.

Villalpando, Antonio

Stringer, Christopher B.

Martinez Ruiz, Francisca

Sakamoto, Tatsuhiko

机构：

[1] Gibraltar Museum, Gibraltar, Gibraltar

[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Social Sci, Toronto, ON M1C 1A4, Canada

[3] Museo Arqueol El Puerto Maria, El Puerto Santa Maria 11500, Spain

[4] Univ Huelva, Fac Ciencias Expt, Dept Geodinam & Paleontol, Huelva 21071, Spain

[5] Museo Municipal, Villamartin 11650, Spain

[6] Univ Rovira & Virgili, Inst Catala Paleoecol Humana & Evolucio Social, Area Prehist, Tarragona 43003, Spain

[7] Univ Autonoma Madrid, Dept Prehist & Arqueol, E-28049 Madrid, Spain

[8] Univ Murcia, Dept Plant Biol, E-30100 Murcia, Spain

[9] CSIC, Museo Nacl Ciencias Nat, E-28006 Madrid, Spain

[10] Herpetol Conservat Trust, Bournemouth BH1 4AP, Dorset, England

[11] CSIC, UGR, Inst Andaluz Ciencias Tierra, Granada 18002, Spain

[12] Univ London, Royal Holloway & Bedford New Coll, Dept Geog, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England

[13] CSIC, Hist Inst, Lab Arqueobot, E-28014 Madrid, Spain

[14] Univ Granada, Dept Prehist & Arqueol, E-18071 Granada, Spain

[15] Univ Cadiz, Fac Filosofia & Letras, Area Prehist, Cadiz 11003, Spain

[16] Univ Cambridge, Dept Biol Anthropol, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England

[17] Nat Hist Museum, Dept Palaeontol, London SW7 5BD, England

[18] Japan Agcy Marine Earth Sci & Technol, Inst Res Earth Evolut, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 2370061, Japan

来源：

NATURE | 2006年 / 443卷 / 7113期

关键词：

Population statistics - Regional planning - Social aspects;

D O I：

10.1038/nature05195

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The late survival of archaic hominin populations and their long contemporaneity with modern humans is now clear for southeast Asia(1). In Europe the extinction of the Neanderthals, firmly associated with Mousterian technology, has received much attention, and evidence of their survival after 35 kyr BP has recently been put in doubt(2). Here we present data, based on a high-resolution record of human occupation from Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar, that establish the survival of a population of Neanderthals to 28 kyr BP. These Neanderthals survived in the southernmost point of Europe, within a particular physiographic context, and are the last currently recorded anywhere. Our results show that the Neanderthals survived in isolated refuges well after the arrival of modern humans in Europe.

引用

页码：850 / 853

页数：4

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