TY - JOUR
T1 - Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France
AU - Slimak, Ludovic
AU - Zanolli, Clément
AU - Higham, Tom
AU - Frouin, Marine
AU - Schwenninger, Jean Luc
AU - Arnold, Lee J.
AU - Demuro, Martina
AU - Douka, Katerina
AU - Mercier, Norbert
AU - Guérin, Gilles
AU - Valladas, Hélène
AU - Yvorra, Pascale
AU - Giraud, Yves
AU - Seguin-Orlando, Andaine
AU - Orlando, Ludovic
AU - Lewis, Jason E.
AU - Muth, Xavier
AU - Camus, Hubert
AU - Vandevelde, Ségolène
AU - Buckley, Mike
AU - Mallol, Carolina
AU - Stringer, Chris
AU - Metz, Laure
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - 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 ∼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 Rhône 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.
AB - 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 ∼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 Rhône 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.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85124325018
U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.abj9496
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.abj9496
M3 - Article
C2 - 35138885
AN - SCOPUS:85124325018
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 8
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
IS - 6
M1 - abj9496
ER -