Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe
Two speleothem stable isotope records from East-Central Europe demonstrate that Greenland Stadial 12 (GS12) and G510-at 44.3-43.3 and 40.8-40.2 ka-were prominent intervals of cold and arid conditions. GS12, GS11, and GS10 are coeval with a regional pattern of culturally (near-)sterile layers within...
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ftubkoeln:oai:USBKOELN.ub.uni-koeln.de:17300 2023-05-15T16:29:17+02:00 Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe Staubwasser, Michael Dragusin, Virgil Onac, Bogdan P. Assonov, Sergey Ersek, Vasile Hoffmann, Dirk L. Veres, Daniel 2018 https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/17300/ eng eng NATL ACAD SCIENCES Staubwasser, Michael, Dragusin, Virgil orcid:0000-0003-0221-1816 , Onac, Bogdan P. orcid:0000-0003-2332-6858 , Assonov, Sergey, Ersek, Vasile orcid:0000-0001-9730-0007 , Hoffmann, Dirk L. and Veres, Daniel orcid:0000-0003-3932-577X (2018). Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 115 (37). S. 9116 - 9122. WASHINGTON: NATL ACAD SCIENCES. ISSN 0027-8424 ddc:no doc-type:article publishedVersion 2018 ftubkoeln 2022-11-09T07:16:06Z Two speleothem stable isotope records from East-Central Europe demonstrate that Greenland Stadial 12 (GS12) and G510-at 44.3-43.3 and 40.8-40.2 ka-were prominent intervals of cold and arid conditions. GS12, GS11, and GS10 are coeval with a regional pattern of culturally (near-)sterile layers within Europe's diachronous archeologic transition from Neanderthals to modern human Aurignacian. Sterile layers coeval with G512 precede the Aurignacian throughout the middle and upper Danube region. In some records from the northern Iberian Peninsula, such layers are coeval with GS11 and separate the Chatelperronian from the Aurignacian. Sterile layers preceding the Aurignacian in the remaining Chatelperronian domain are coeval with GS10 and the previously reported 40.0- to 40.8-ka cal BP [calendar years before present (1950)] time range of Neanderthals' disappearance from most of Europe. This suggests that ecologic stress during stadia! expansion of steppe landscape caused a diachronous pattern of depopulation of Neanderthals, which facilitated repopulation by modern humans who appear to have been better adapted to this environment. Consecutive depopulation-repopulation cycles during severe stadials of the middle pleniglacial may principally explain the repeated replacement of Europe's population and its genetic composition. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Cologne University: KUPS Greenland |
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Two speleothem stable isotope records from East-Central Europe demonstrate that Greenland Stadial 12 (GS12) and G510-at 44.3-43.3 and 40.8-40.2 ka-were prominent intervals of cold and arid conditions. GS12, GS11, and GS10 are coeval with a regional pattern of culturally (near-)sterile layers within Europe's diachronous archeologic transition from Neanderthals to modern human Aurignacian. Sterile layers coeval with G512 precede the Aurignacian throughout the middle and upper Danube region. In some records from the northern Iberian Peninsula, such layers are coeval with GS11 and separate the Chatelperronian from the Aurignacian. Sterile layers preceding the Aurignacian in the remaining Chatelperronian domain are coeval with GS10 and the previously reported 40.0- to 40.8-ka cal BP [calendar years before present (1950)] time range of Neanderthals' disappearance from most of Europe. This suggests that ecologic stress during stadia! expansion of steppe landscape caused a diachronous pattern of depopulation of Neanderthals, which facilitated repopulation by modern humans who appear to have been better adapted to this environment. Consecutive depopulation-repopulation cycles during severe stadials of the middle pleniglacial may principally explain the repeated replacement of Europe's population and its genetic composition. |
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Staubwasser, Michael Dragusin, Virgil Onac, Bogdan P. Assonov, Sergey Ersek, Vasile Hoffmann, Dirk L. Veres, Daniel |
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Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe |
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Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe |
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Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe |
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Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe |
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Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe |
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impact of climate change on the transition of neanderthals to modern humans in europe |
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Staubwasser, Michael, Dragusin, Virgil orcid:0000-0003-0221-1816 , Onac, Bogdan P. orcid:0000-0003-2332-6858 , Assonov, Sergey, Ersek, Vasile orcid:0000-0001-9730-0007 , Hoffmann, Dirk L. and Veres, Daniel orcid:0000-0003-3932-577X (2018). Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 115 (37). S. 9116 - 9122. WASHINGTON: NATL ACAD SCIENCES. ISSN 0027-8424 |
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