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An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe. Cortés-Sánchez, Miguel Jiménez-Espejo, Francisco Simón-Vallejo, M. Dolores Stringer, Chris Lozano-Francisco, María del Carmen García-Alix, Antonio Vera-Peláez, José L. Odriozola, Carlos Riquelme-Cantal, José A. Parrilla Giráldez, Rubén Maestro González, Adolfo Ohkouchi, Naohiko Morales Muñiz, Arturo Hombre de Neandertal Prehistoria - Europa meridional Westernmost Europe constitutes a key location in determining the timing of the replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans (AMHs). In this study, the replacement of late Mousterian industries by Aurignacian ones at the site of 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 thousand years before the present (cal ka bp)—well before the onset of Heinrich event 4 (~40.2–38.3 cal ka bp). These dates indicate that the 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 scenarios on other continents, such rapid expansion points to coastal corridors as favoured routes for early AMH. The new radiocarbon dates align Iberian chronologies with AMH dispersal patterns in Eurasia. 2024-10-02T11:11:12Z 2024-10-02T11:11:12Z 2024-10-02T11:11:12Z 2019-01-21 journal article 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. https://hdl.handle.net/10630/34212 10.1038/s41559-018-0753-6 eng open access Nature Publishing Group UK