Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe

Clive Finlayson (), Francisco Giles Pacheco, Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal, Darren A. Fa, José María Gutierrez López, Antonio Santiago Pérez, Geraldine Finlayson, Ethel Allue, Javier Baena Preysler, Isabel Cáceres, José S. Carrión, Yolanda Fernández Jalvo, Christopher P. Gleed-Owen, Francisco J. Jimenez Espejo, Pilar López, José Antonio López Sáez, José Antonio Riquelme Cantal, Antonio Sánchez Marco, Francisco Giles Guzman, Kimberly Brown, Noemí Fuentes, Claire A. Valarino, Antonio Villalpando, Christopher B. Stringer, Francisca Martinez Ruiz and Tatsuhiko Sakamoto
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Clive Finlayson: The Gibraltar Museum
Francisco Giles Pacheco: Museo Arqueologico de El Puerto Santa María
Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal: Universidad de Huelva
Darren A. Fa: The Gibraltar Museum
José María Gutierrez López: Museo Municipal
Antonio Santiago Pérez: Museo Arqueologico de El Puerto Santa María
Geraldine Finlayson: The Gibraltar Museum
Ethel Allue: Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Area de Prehistoria, Universidad Rovira i Virgili
Javier Baena Preysler: Universidad Autonoma
Isabel Cáceres: Institut Catala de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolucio Social, Area de Prehistoria, Universidad Rovira i Virgili
José S. Carrión: Universidad de Murcia
Yolanda Fernández Jalvo: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)
Christopher P. Gleed-Owen: The Herpetological Conservation Trust, Bournemouth
Francisco J. Jimenez Espejo: Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC-UGR
Pilar López: Royal Holloway College, University of London
José Antonio López Sáez: Instituto de Historia (CSIC)
José Antonio Riquelme Cantal: Universidad de Granada
Antonio Sánchez Marco: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC)
Francisco Giles Guzman: Universidad de Cádiz
Kimberly Brown: University of Cambridge
Noemí Fuentes: Universidad de Murcia
Claire A. Valarino: The Gibraltar Museum
Antonio Villalpando: Universidad de Cádiz
Christopher B. Stringer: The Natural History Museum
Francisca Martinez Ruiz: Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra, CSIC-UGR
Tatsuhiko Sakamoto: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology

Nature, 2006, vol. 443, issue 7113, 850-853

Abstract: Rock on Identifying the precise point when a species went extinct is probably impossible. You can never be sure that a fossil is the very last of its kind. The extinction of the Neanderthals in Europe is a case in point, but Finlayson et al. have gone further than anyone in their study of the Neanderthal occupation of Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar, showing that Neanderthals occupied this most southerly point of Europe as recently as 28,000 years ago, long after Neanderthals elsewhere in southwest Europe appear to have become extinct.

Date: 2006
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