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Staubwasser, Michael, Dragusin, Virgil ORCID: 0000-0003-0221-1816, Onac, Bogdan P. ORCID: 0000-0003-2332-6858, Assonov, Sergey, Ersek, Vasile ORCID: 0000-0001-9730-0007, Hoffmann, Dirk L. and Veres, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0003-3932-577X (2018). Impact of climate change on the transition of Neanderthals to modern humans in Europe. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 115 (37). S. 9116 - 9122. WASHINGTON: NATL ACAD SCIENCES. ISSN 0027-8424

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Abstract

Two speleothem stable isotope records from East-Central Europe demonstrate that Greenland Stadial 12 (GS12) and G510-at 44.3-43.3 and 40.8-40.2 ka-were prominent intervals of cold and arid conditions. GS12, GS11, and GS10 are coeval with a regional pattern of culturally (near-)sterile layers within Europe's diachronous archeologic transition from Neanderthals to modern human Aurignacian. Sterile layers coeval with G512 precede the Aurignacian throughout the middle and upper Danube region. In some records from the northern Iberian Peninsula, such layers are coeval with GS11 and separate the Chatelperronian from the Aurignacian. Sterile layers preceding the Aurignacian in the remaining Chatelperronian domain are coeval with GS10 and the previously reported 40.0- to 40.8-ka cal BP [calendar years before present (1950)] time range of Neanderthals' disappearance from most of Europe. This suggests that ecologic stress during stadia! expansion of steppe landscape caused a diachronous pattern of depopulation of Neanderthals, which facilitated repopulation by modern humans who appear to have been better adapted to this environment. Consecutive depopulation-repopulation cycles during severe stadials of the middle pleniglacial may principally explain the repeated replacement of Europe's population and its genetic composition.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Staubwasser, Michael UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Dragusin, Virgil UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0221-1816 UNSPECIFIED Onac, Bogdan P. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-2332-6858 UNSPECIFIED Assonov, Sergey UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ersek, Vasile UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-9730-0007 UNSPECIFIED Hoffmann, Dirk L. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Veres, Daniel UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-3932-577X UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-173002
DOI:	10.1073/pnas.1808647115
Journal or Publication Title:	Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A.
Volume:	115
Number:	37
Page Range:	S. 9116 - 9122
Date:	2018
Publisher:	NATL ACAD SCIENCES
Place of Publication:	WASHINGTON
ISSN:	0027-8424
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language UPPER PALEOLITHIC TRANSITION; UPPER PLEISTOCENE LOESS; EASTERN-EUROPE; RADIOCARBON CHRONOLOGY; MAAR SEDIMENTS; MIDDLE; VEGETATION; VARIABILITY; AURIGNACIAN; CAVE Multiple languages Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/17300