A Late Neanderthal associated with Upper Palaeolithic artefacts
A Late Neanderthal associated with Upper Palaeolithic artefacts
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DOI：
10.1038/381224a0
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发表时间：
1996-05-16
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影响因子：
64.8
通讯作者：
Condemi, S
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作者：
Hublin, JJ;Spoor, F;Condemi, S
法国库尔河畔阿尔西遗址是记录欧洲旧石器时代中晚期过渡的关键地点。与旧石器时代早期的查特尔佩隆工业有关的人类化石碎片的可靠归属是不可能的。在这里，我们报告的第一个结论性的鉴定这些化石之一，作为尼安德特人的基础上，新发现的衍生功能的骨迷宫。该化石的年代约为34000年前，是已知最年轻的尼安德特人的代表，其考古背景表明这些原始人使用丰富的骨骼工业以及个人装饰品。这些证据支持了欧洲第一批现代人和最后一批尼安德特人之间长期共存的假设。然而，来自西欧的现代旧石器时代晚期标本中完全没有衍生的尼安德特人特征，这与该地区两个种群之间的系统发育连续性提出了异议。
THE French site of Arcy-sur-Cure is a key locality in documenting the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe. Reliable attribution of the fragmentary hominid fossils associated with its early Upper Palaeolithic Chatelperronian industry has not been possible. Here we report the first conclusive identification of one of these fossils as Neanderthal on the basis of newly discovered derived features of the bony labyrinth. Dated at about thirty-four thousand years (34 kyr) ago, the fossil is representative of the youngest known Neanderthal populations, and its archaeological context indicates that these hominids used a rich bone industry as well as personal ornaments. The evidence supports the hypothesis of a long term coexistence with technocultural interactions between the first modern humans and the last Neanderthals in Europe. However, the complete absence of the derived Neanderthal traits in labyrinths of modern Upper Palaeolithic specimens from western Europe argues against phylogenetic continuity between the two populations in this region.