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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2022466118
	Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe
	Devièse T.; Abrams G.; Hajdinjak M.; Pirson S.; de Groote I.; Modica K.D.; Toussaint M.; Fischer V.; Comeskey D.; Spindler L.; Meyer M.; Semal P.; Higham T.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:12
英文摘要	Elucidating when Neanderthal populations disappeared from Eurasia is a key question in paleoanthropology, and Belgium is one of the key regions for studying the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. Previous radiocarbon dating placed the Spy Neanderthals among the latest surviving Neanderthals in Northwest Europe with reported dates as young as 23,880 ± 240 B.P. (OxA-8912). Questions were raised, however, regarding the reliability of these dates. Soil contamination and carbon-based conservation products are known to cause problems during the radiocarbon dating of bulk collagen samples. Employing a compound-specific approach that is today the most efficient in removing contamination and ancient genomic analysis, we demonstrate here that previous dates produced on Neanderthal specimens from Spy were inaccurately young by up to 10,000 y due to the presence of unremoved contamination. Our compound-specific radiocarbon dates on the Neanderthals from Spy and those from Engis and Fonds-de-Forêt demonstrate that they disappeared from Northwest Europe at 44,200 to 40,600 cal B.P. (at 95.4% probability), much earlier than previously suggested. Our data contribute significantly to refining models for Neanderthal disappearance in Europe and, more broadly, show that chronometric models regarding the appearance or disappearance of animal or hominin groups should be based only on radiocarbon dates obtained using robust pretreatment methods. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Ancient genomic analysis; Belgium; Compound-specific radiocarbon dating; Neanderthal disappearance
语种	英语
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/180146
作者单位	Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, United Kingdom; Scladina Cave Archaeological Centre, Andenne, 5300, Belgium; Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, 2311 EZ, Netherlands; Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, 04103, Germany; Direction Scientifique et Technique, Agence wallonne du Patrimoine, Namur, 5100, Belgium; Department of Archaeology, Ghent University, Ghent, 9000, Belgium; School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, L2 2QP, United Kingdom; Association Wallonne d’Études Mégalithiques, Liège, 4000, Belgium; Evolution and Diversity Dynamics Lab, University of Liège, Liège, 4000, Belgium; Scientific Service Heritage, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, 1000, Belgium
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Devièse T.,Abrams G.,Hajdinjak M.,et al. Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe[J],2021,118(12).
APA	Devièse T..,Abrams G..,Hajdinjak M..,Pirson S..,de Groote I..,...&Higham T..(2021).Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(12).
MLA	Devièse T.,et al."Reevaluating the timing of Neanderthal disappearance in Northwest Europe".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.12(2021).