The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant
| Autor: | Naomi Porat, Stefano Benazzi, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Nadav Nir, Ariel Malinski-Buller, Nuha Agha, Alon Barash, Yoel Rak, Ruth Shahack-Gross, Erella Hovers, Omry Barzilai, Gregorio Oxilia, Ella Been, Lihi Levin, Joel Roskin, Netta Mitki, Ravid Ekshtain, Mareike Cordula Stahlschmidt, Reuven Yeshurun, Noam Greenbaum, Michalle Soudack, Jean-Jacques Hublin |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Been, Ella, Hovers, Erella, Ekshtain, Ravid, Malinski-buller, Ariel, Agha, Nuha, Barash, Alon, Mayer, Daniella E. Bar-yosef, Benazzi, Stefano, Hublin, Jean-jacque, Levin, Lihi, Greenbaum, Noam, Mitki, Netta, Oxilia, Gregorio, Porat, Naomi, Roskin, Joel, Soudack, Michalle, Yeshurun, Reuven, Shahack-gross, Ruth, Nir, Nadav, Stahlschmidt, Mareike C., Rak, Yoel, Barzilai, Omry |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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010506 paleontology
Neanderthal Science Population 01 natural sciences Lower limb Bone and Bones Article multidisciplinary taxonomy Paleontology Cave Digital Method biology.animal medicine Animals Humans 0601 history and archaeology Israel education Levant 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Open air Neanderthals geography education.field_of_study 060101 anthropology geography.geographical_feature_category Fossil Record biology Fossils Hominidae 06 humanities and the arts Archaeology Skull Human Remain medicine.anatomical_structure Homo sapiens Medicine Tooth Neandertal |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2017) Scientific Reports, 7, 2958 Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period—Neandertals and Homo sapiens. Until recently, diagnostic fossil remains were found only at cave sites. Because the two populations in this region left similar material cultural remains, it was impossible to attribute any open-air site to either species. In this study, we present newly discovered fossil remains from intact archaeological layers of the open-air site ‘Ein Qashish, in northern Israel. The hominin remains represent three individuals: EQH1, a nondiagnostic skull fragment; EQH2, an upper right third molar (RM3); and EQH3, lower limb bones of a young Neandertal male. EQH2 and EQH3 constitute the first diagnostic anatomical remains of Neandertals at an open-air site in the Levant. The optically stimulated luminescence ages suggest that Neandertals repeatedly visited ‘Ein Qashish between 70 and 60 ka. The discovery of Neandertals at open-air sites during the late MP reinforces the view that Neandertals were a resilient population in the Levant shortly before Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens populated the region. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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