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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 138, Issue 4, Pages 421-428Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20954
Keywords
northwest Europe; Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition; acculturation
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- FRS-FNRS [2005-2006/1.5.287
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- NERC [NEfDO14077/1]
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In Eurasia, the period between 40,000 and 30,000 BP saw the replacement of Neandertals by anatomically modern humans (AMH) during and after the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition. The human fossil record for this period is very poorly defined with no overlap between Neandertals and AMH on the basis of direct dates. Four new 14 C dates were obtained on the two adult Neandertals from Spy (Belgium). The results show that Neandertals survived to at least approximate to 36,000 BP in Belgium and that the Spy fossils may be associated to the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician, a transitional techno-complex defined in northwest Europe and recognized in the Spy collections. The new data suggest that hypotheses other than Neandertal acculturation by AMH may be considered in this part of Europe. Am J Phys Anthropol. 138:421-429, 2009. (c) 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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