The fate of the Neanderthals: Between about 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, the Neanderthals in Europe were replaced by populations of behaviourally and biologically modern humans. What happened during that period?
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The discovery of well-preserved mitochondrial DNA from the original Neanderthal skeleton has aroused interest in how Neanderthal replacement by modern populations around 30,000-40,000 years ago, came about. Such a process has to involve some degree of coexistence and potential interaction, and there is consensus that local Neanderthals in the southern region of the Spanish peninsula, survived for 5,000 to 10,000 years after modern populations arrived in the north. Studies of Neanderthal skeletal remains have reinforced the conclusion that they were a divergent lineage, with distinct anatomical and behavioral patterns from modern humans.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia
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Research shows that quartz sand found with at ancient human dwelling sites in the Jinmium rock shelter, Northern Australia, is 22 thousand years old. Multi-grain optical radiocarbon dating methods demonstrate that the quartz sand consists of relatively young grains dated less than ten thousand years old. Evidence suggests that some grains of sand appear to be older because they were not exposed to sunlight prior to their burial.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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