The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

Tom Higham (), Katerina Douka, Rachel Wood, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Fiona Brock, Laura Basell, Marta Camps, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, Javier Baena, Cecillio Barroso-Ruíz, Christopher Bergman, Coralie Boitard, Paolo Boscato, Miguel Caparrós, Nicholas J. Conard, Christelle Draily, Alain Froment, Bertila Galván, Paolo Gambassini, Alejandro Garcia-Moreno, Stefano Grimaldi, Paul Haesaerts, Brigitte Holt, Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso, Arthur Jelinek, Jesús F. Jordá Pardo, José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández, Anat Marom, Julià Maroto, Mario Menéndez, Laure Metz, Eugène Morin, Adriana Moroni, Fabio Negrino, Eleni Panagopoulou, Marco Peresani, Stéphane Pirson, Marco de la Rasilla, Julien Riel-Salvatore, Annamaria Ronchitelli, David Santamaria, Patrick Semal, Ludovic Slimak, Joaquim Soler, Narcís Soler, Aritza Villaluenga, Ron Pinhasi and Roger Jacobi
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Tom Higham: Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Katerina Douka: Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Rachel Wood: Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Christopher Bronk Ramsey: Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Fiona Brock: Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Laura Basell: School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology (GAP), Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
Marta Camps: School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College Park, 4102 Jiménez Hall, University of Maryland
Alvaro Arrizabalaga: Research Team on Prehistory (IT-622-13), IKERBASQUE, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Tomás y Valiente Street, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Javier Baena: Departimento Prehistoria y Arqueología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Campus Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
Cecillio Barroso-Ruíz: Fundación Instituto de Investigación de Prehistoria y Evolución Humana, Plaza del Coso 1, 14900 Lucena, Córdoba, Spain
Christopher Bergman: URS, 525 Vine Street, Suite 1800, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, USA
Coralie Boitard: 8 rue des Sapins, 67100 Strasbourg, France
Paolo Boscato: della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy
Miguel Caparrós: Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 75013 París, France
Nicholas J. Conard: Abt. Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie, Universität Tübingen, Schloss Hohentübingen, 72070 Tübingen, Germany
Christelle Draily: Service public de Wallonie, DGO4, Service de l′Archéologie, rue des Martyrs, 22, B-6700 Arlon, Belgium
Alain Froment: Laboratoire d’Éco-antropologie et Ethnobiologie, Musée de l’Homme, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, France
Bertila Galván: Arqueología, Antropología e Historia Antigua, Universidad de La Laguna, Campus de Guajara, 38071 Tenerife, Spain
Paolo Gambassini: della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy
Alejandro Garcia-Moreno: Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Schloss Monrepos, D-56567 Neuwied, Germany
Stefano Grimaldi: Laboratorio di Preistoria ‘B. Bagolini’, Università degli Studi di Trento, via Tommaso Gar, 14 I-38122 Trento, Italy
Paul Haesaerts: Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Brigitte Holt: University of Massachusetts, 103 Machmer Hall, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
Maria-Jose Iriarte-Chiapusso: Research Team on Prehistory (IT-622-13), IKERBASQUE, University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU), Tomás y Valiente Street, 01006 Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Arthur Jelinek: School of Anthropology, Emil W. Haury Building, University of Arizona
Jesús F. Jordá Pardo: UNED. Paseo Senda del Rey 7, 20840, Madrid, Spain
José-Manuel Maíllo-Fernández: UNED. Paseo Senda del Rey 7, 20840, Madrid, Spain
Anat Marom: Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK
Julià Maroto: Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat de Girona, pl. Ferrater Mora 1, 17071 Girona, Spain
Mario Menéndez: UNED. Paseo Senda del Rey 7, 20840, Madrid, Spain
Laure Metz: CNRS, UMR 5608, TRACES, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, Maison de la Recherche, 5 Allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse, Cedex 9, France
Eugène Morin: Trent University, Life and Health Sciences Building Block C, 2140 East Bank Drive, Peterborough, Ontario K9J 7B8, Canada
Adriana Moroni: della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy
Fabio Negrino: Filosofia e Storia, Università di Genova, Via Balbi 2, Genova I-16126, Italy
Eleni Panagopoulou: Ephoreia of Paleoanthropology of Southern Greece, Ardittou 34B, Athens 11636, Greece
Marco Peresani: Università di Ferrara, Sezione di Scienze Preistoriche e Antropologiche, Corso Ercole I d’Este 32, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
Stéphane Pirson: Service public de Wallonie, DGO4, Direction de l′Archéologie, rue des Brigades d′Irlande, 1, B-5100 Jambes, Belgium
Marco de la Rasilla: Universidad de Oviedo, c/Teniente Alfonso Martínez, s/n, 33011 Oviedo, Spain
Julien Riel-Salvatore: Université de Montréal, C. P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Quebec H3T 1N8, Canada
Annamaria Ronchitelli: della Terra e dell’Ambiente, U.R. Preistoria e Antropologia, Università degli Studi di Siena, Via Laterina 8, 53100 Siena, Italy
David Santamaria: Universidad de Oviedo, c/Teniente Alfonso Martínez, s/n, 33011 Oviedo, Spain
Patrick Semal: Service of Scientific Heritage, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Ludovic Slimak: CNRS, UMR 5608, TRACES, Toulouse Jean Jaurès University, Maison de la Recherche, 5 Allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse, Cedex 9, France
Joaquim Soler: Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat de Girona, pl. Ferrater Mora 1, 17071 Girona, Spain
Narcís Soler: Àrea de Prehistòria, Universitat de Girona, pl. Ferrater Mora 1, 17071 Girona, Spain
Aritza Villaluenga: Monrepos Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Schloss Monrepos, D-56567 Neuwied, Germany
Ron Pinhasi: UCD Earth Institute and School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Roger Jacobi: Franks House, The British Museum, London N1 5QJ, UK

Nature, 2014, vol. 512, issue 7514, 306-309

Abstract: Accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dating is used to construct a chronology of Neanderthal disappearance, showing that Neanderthals overlapped with anatomically modern humans for between about 2,000 and 5,000 years.

Date: 2014
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