Placing late Neanderthals in a climatic context

P. C. Tzedakis (), K. A. Hughen, I. Cacho and K. Harvati
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P. C. Tzedakis: Earth and Biosphere Institute, School of Geography, University of Leeds
K. A. Hughen: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA
I. Cacho: GRC Marine Geosciences, University of Barcelona
K. Harvati: Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Nature, 2007, vol. 449, issue 7159, 206-208

Abstract: Under the weather Attempts to place stone-age events in climatic context are hampered by the difficulty of calibrating the radiocarbon calendar beyond 21,000 radiocarbon years ago, and the lack of a 'master' chronology for climate events. But there is a way round this problem: radiocarbon years can be related to palaeoclimate via the excellent Cariaco Basin deep-sea record. In this way, the disappearance of Neanderthals in Europe can be related to known climatic events. Applying this analysis to dates linked to Neanderthal artefacts from Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar, suggests that they survived there up to the onset of a major environmental shift.

Date: 2007
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