RT Journal Article
T1 An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe.
T2 An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe
A1 Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel
A1 Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco
A1 Simón-Vallejo, M. Dolores
A1 Stringer, Chris
A1 Lozano-Francisco, María del Carmen
A1 García-Alix, Antonio
A1 Vera-Peláez, José L.
A1 Odriozola, Carlos
A1 Riquelme-Cantal, José A.
A1 Parrilla Giráldez, Rubén
A1 Maestro González, Adolfo
A1 Ohkouchi, Naohiko
A1 Morales Muñiz, Arturo
K1 Hombre de Neandertal
K1 Prehistoria - Europa meridional
AB Westernmost Europe constitutes a key location in determining the timing of the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomicallymodern humans (AMHs). In this study, the replacement of late Mousterian industries by Aurignacian ones at the siteof Bajondillo Cave (Málaga, southern Spain) is reported. On the basis of Bayesian analyses, a total of 26 radiocarbon dates,including 17 new ones, show that replacement at Bajondillo took place in the millennia centring on ~45–43 calibrated thousandyears before the present (cal ka bp)—well before the onset of Heinrich event 4 (~40.2–38.3 cal ka bp). These dates indicate thatthe arrival of AMHs at the southernmost tip of Iberia was essentially synchronous with that recorded in other regions of Europe,and significantly increases the areal expansion reached by early AMHs at that time. In agreement with human dispersal scenarioson other continents, such rapid expansion points to coastal corridors as favoured routes for early AMH. The new radiocarbondates align Iberian chronologies with AMH dispersal patterns in Eurasia.
PB Nature Publishing Group UK
YR 2019
FD 2019-01-21
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34212
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34212
LA eng
NO Miguel Cortés-Sánchez, Francisco J. Jiménez-Espejo, María D. Simón-Vallejo, Chris Stringer, María Carmen Lozano-Francisco, Antonio García-Alix, José L. Vera-Peláez, Carlos P. Odriozola, José A. Riquelme-Cantal, Rubén Parrilla Giráldez, Adolfo Maestro González, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Arturo Morales-Muñiz. 2019. An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe. 3: 207-2012.
NO Consejería de Cultura of the Junta de Andalucía (Spain) (UPPH/49/06). HAR2013-44269-P and HAR 2016-77789-P from the Spanish Ministerio deEconomía y Competitividad. Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (RYC-2015-18966) HUM-949 Research Group (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) ICArEHB (University of Algarve, Portugal)
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 8 mar 2026