TY  - JOUR
N2  - The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late Neanderthals persisted in western Europe several millennia after the occurrence of H. sapiens in eastern Europe1. Local hybridization between the two groups occurred2, but not on all occasions3. Archaeological evidence also indicates the presence of several technocomplexes during this transition, complicating our understanding and the association of behavioural adaptations with specific hominin groups4. One such technocomplex for which the makers are unknown is the Lincombian?Ranisian?Jerzmanowician (LRJ), which has been described in northwestern and central Europe5?8. Here we present the morphological and proteomic taxonomic identification, mitochondrial DNA analysis and direct radiocarbon dating of human remains directly associated with an LRJ assemblage at the site Ilsenhöhle in Ranis (Germany). These human remains are among the earliest directly dated Upper Palaeolithic H. sapiens remains in Eurasia. We show that early H. sapiens associated with the LRJ were present in central and northwestern Europe long before the extinction of late Neanderthals in southwestern Europe. Our results strengthen the notion of a patchwork of distinct human populations and technocomplexes present in Europe during this transitional period.
AV  - public
VL  - 626
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  -  Multidisciplinary Sciences
KW  -  Science & Technology - Other Topics
KW  -  UPPER PALEOLITHIC TRANSITION
KW  -  SPECIES IDENTIFICATION
KW  -  KENT CAVERN
KW  -  SEQUENCE
KW  -  PALAEODIETARY
KW  -  ENVIRONMENT
KW  -  ALIGNMENT
KW  -  CONTEXT
KW  -  MICADAS
KW  -  MAXILLA
EP  - 346
SP  - 341
TI  - Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06923-7
JF  - Nature
N1  - This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PB  - NATURE PORTFOLIO
A1  - Mylopotamitaki, Dorothea
A1  - Weiss, Marcel
A1  - Fewlass, Helen
A1  - Zavala, Elena Irene
A1  - Rougier, Helene
A1  - Suemer, Arev Pelin
A1  - Hajdinjak, Mateja
A1  - Smith, Geoff M
A1  - Ruebens, Karen
A1  - Sinet-Mathiot, Virginie
A1  - Pederzani, Sarah
A1  - Essel, Elena
A1  - Harking, Florian S
A1  - Xia, Huan
A1  - Hansen, Jakob
A1  - Kirchner, Andre
A1  - Lauer, Tobias
A1  - Stahlschmidt, Mareike
A1  - Hein, Michael
A1  - Talamo, Sahra
A1  - Wacker, Lukas
A1  - Meller, Harald
A1  - Dietl, Holger
A1  - Orschiedt, Joerg
A1  - Olsen, Jesper V
A1  - Zeberg, Hugo
A1  - Pruefer, Kay
A1  - Krause, Johannes
A1  - Meyer, Matthias
A1  - Welker, Frido
A1  - Mcpherron, Shannon P
A1  - Schueler, Tim
A1  - Hublin, Jean-Jacques
SN  - 0028-0836
ID  - discovery10191503
Y1  - 2024/02/08/
ER  -