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El tiempo y el patrón espacio-temporal de la desaparición de los neandertales

Tom Higham¹, Katerina Douka¹, Rachel Wood²

¹Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Research Laboratory for Archaeology &the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.

|August 22, 2014

Resumen

La desaparición de los neandertales ocurrió en toda Europa entre hace 41.030 y 39.260 años, coincidiendo con los humanos anatómicamente modernos (AMH) durante hasta 5.400 años, lo que permitió el intercambio cultural y genético.

Área de la Ciencia:

La paleoantropología.
Arqueología Arqueología.
La datación por radiocarbono fue

Sus antecedentes:

Comprender la desaparición de los neandertales y su superposición con los humanos anatómicamente modernos (HMA) es crucial para la paleoantropología.
Las limitaciones anteriores de la datación por radiocarbono (alrededor de 50.000 años) obstaculizaban los análisis espaciotemporales precisos.
Las preguntas clave involucran los procesos, el momento y las razones de la extinción de los neandertales y las posibles interacciones con los AMH.

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