Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France

• Autor(a) principal: Slimak, Ludovic
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Zanolli, Clément, Higham, Tom, Frouin, Marine, Schwenninger, Jean-Luc, Arnold, Lee J., Demuro, Martina, Douka, Katerina, Mercier, Norbert, Guérin, Gilles, Valladas, Hélène, Yvorra, Pascale, Giraud, Yves, Seguin-Orlando, Andaine, Orlando, Ludovic, Lewis, Jason E., Muth, Xavier, Camus, Hubert, Vandevelde, Ségolène, Buckley, Mike, Mallol, Carolina, Stringer, Chris, Metz, Laure
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/19237
• topic: Perennially frozen deposits; Enamel-dentin juntion; Dose-rate; Multiple grains; Trace-element; Radiocarbon chronologies; Historical structure; Computed-tomography

Determining the extent of overlap between modern humans and other hominins in Eurasia, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, is fundamental to understanding the nature of their interactions and what led to the disappearance of archaic hominins. Apart from a possible sporadic pulse recorded in Greece during the Middle Pleistocene, the first settlements of modern humans in Europe have been constrained to similar to 45,000 to 43,000 years ago. Here, we report hominin fossils from Grotte Mandrin in France that reveal the earliest known presence of modern humans in Europe between 56,800 and 51,700 years ago. This early modern human incursion in the Rhone Valley is associated with technologies unknown in any industry of that age outside Africa or the Levant. Mandrin documents the first alternating occupation of Neanderthals and modern humans, with a modern human fossil and associated Neronian lithic industry found stratigraphically between layers containing Neanderthal remains associated with Mousterian industries.