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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion
PLoS ONE, Volume 3, No. 12, Article e3972, Year 2008
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Background: Despite a long history of investigation, considerable debate revolves around whether Neanderthals became extinct because of climate change or competition with anatomically modern humans (AMH). Methodology/Principal Findings: We apply a new methodology integrating archaeological and chronological data with high-resolution paleoclimatic simulations to define eco-cultural niches associated with Neanderthal and AMH adaptive systems during alternating cold and mild phases of Marine Isotope Stage 3. Our results indicate that Neanderthals and AMH exploited similar niches, and may have continued to do so in the absence of contact. Conclusions/Significance: The southerly contraction of Neanderthal range in southwestern Europe during Greenland Interstadial 8 was not due to climate change or a change in adaptation, but rather concurrent AMH geographic expansion appears to have produced competition that led to Neanderthal extinction. © 2008 Banks et al.
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Authors & Co-Authors
Banks, William E.
France, Pessac
De la Préhistoire à L'actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
d'Errico, Francesco
France, Pessac
De la Préhistoire à L'actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
South Africa, Johannesburg
University of the Witwatersrand
Peterson, Andrew Townsend
United States, Lawrence
University ks Natural History Museum
Kageyama, Masa
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Commissariat a L'energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives
Sima, Adriana
France, Gif-sur-yvette
Commissariat a L'energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives
Sanchez Goñi, Maria F.
France, Pessac
Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux
Statistics
Citations: 213
Authors: 6
Affiliations: 5
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0003972
e-ISSN:
19326203
Research Areas
Environmental