[HTML][HTML] The modern human colonization of western Eurasia: when and where?

JJ Hublin - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Dating the timing of the replacement of local Neandertal populations by modern humans in
western Eurasia at the dawn of the Upper Palaeolithic remains challenging due to the …

Human evolution out of Africa: the role of refugia and climate change

JR Stewart, CB Stringer - science, 2012 - science.org
Although an African origin of the modern human species is generally accepted, the
evolutionary processes involved in the speciation, geographical spread, and eventual …

High-precision 14C and 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Campanian Ignimbrite (Y-5) reconciles the time-scales of climatic-cultural processes at 40 ka

B Giaccio, I Hajdas, R Isaia, A Deino, S Nomade - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Late Pleistocene Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) super-eruption (Southern Italy) is
the largest known volcanic event in the Mediterranean area. The CI tephra is widely …

Current pretreatment methods for AMS radiocarbon dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU)

F Brock, T Higham, P Ditchfield, CB Ramsey - Radiocarbon, 2010 - cambridge.org
103 CURRENT PRETREATMENT METHODS FOR AMS RADIOCARBON DATING AT THE
OXFORD RADIOCARBON ACCELERATOR UNIT (ORAU) Fiona Brock1 • T Page 1 …

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

J Zilhão, DE Angelucci, E Badal-García… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - pnas.org
Two sites of the Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic of Iberia, dated to as early as
approximately 50,000 years ago, yielded perforated and pigment-stained marine shells. At …

Chronometric data and stratigraphic evidence support discontinuity between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in the Italian Peninsula

T Higham, M Frouin, K Douka, A Ronchitelli… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The process by which Palaeolithic Europe was transformed from a Neanderthal-dominated
region to one occupied exclusively by Homo sapiens has proven challenging to diagnose. A …

Τesting models for the beginnings of the Aurignacian and the advent of figurative art and music: The radiocarbon chronology of Geißenklösterle

T Higham, L Basell, R Jacobi, R Wood… - Journal of human …, 2012 - Elsevier
The German site of Geißenklösterle is crucial to debates concerning the European Middle to
Upper Palaeolithic transition and the origins of the Aurignacian in Europe. Previous dates …

Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky BP, Italy

M Peresani, I Fiore, M Gala, M Romandini… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - pnas.org
A large and varied avifaunal bone assemblage from the final Mousterian levels of Grotta di
Fumane, northern Italy, reveals unusual human modifications on species that are not clearly …

Early modern human settlement of Europe north of the Alps occurred 43,500 years ago in a cold steppe-type environment

PR Nigst, P Haesaerts, F Damblon… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
The first settlement of Europe by modern humans is thought to have occurred between
50,000 and 40,000 calendar years ago (cal BP). In Europe, modern human remains of this …

Rethinking the initial upper paleolithic

SL Kuhn, N Zwyns - Quaternary International, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The term Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) was originally proposed to describe a
specific assemblage from the site of Boker Tachtit (level 4). The use of the term was …