Browsing by Autor "Vera Aldeias"

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Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria
(Nature Portfolio, 2020) Jean-Jacques Hublin; Nikolay Sirakov; Vera Aldeias; Shara E. Bailey; Édouard Bard; Vincent Delvigne; Elena Endarova; Yoann Fagault; Helen Fewlass; Mateja Hajdinjak
Subarctic climate for the earliestHomo sapiensin Europe
(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2021) Sarah Pederzani; Kate Britton; Vera Aldeias; Nicolas Bourgon; Helen Fewlass; Tobias Lauer; Shannon P. McPherron; Željko Režek; Nikolay Sirakov; Geoffrey M. Smith
The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found across every continent. Current models propose that these expansions occurred only during episodes of warm climate, based on age correlations between archaeological and climatic records. Here, we obtain direct evidence for the temperatures faced by some of these humans through the oxygen isotope analysis of faunal remains from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, the earliest clear record of H. sapiens in Europe. The results indicate that humans ∼45,000 years ago experienced subarctic climates with far colder climatic conditions than previously suggested. This demonstrates that the early presence of H. sapiens in Europe was not contingent on warm climates. Our results necessitate the revision of key models of human expansion and highlight the need for a less deterministic role of climate in the study of our evolutionary history.
Testing the Roc de Marsal Neandertal “Burial” with Geoarchaeology
(Springer Nature, 2013) Paul Goldberg; Vera Aldeias; Harold L. Dibble; Shannon P. McPherron; Dennis Sandgathe; Alain Turq
The First Miocene Fossils from Coastal Woodlands in the Southern East African Rift
(RELX Group (Netherlands), 2021) René Bobe; Vera Aldeias; Zeresenay Alemseged; William Archer; Georges Aumaître; Marion K. Bamford; Dora Biro; Didier Bourlès; David R. Braun; Cristian Capelli
The new 14C chronology for the Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie, France: the disappearance of Neanderthals and the arrival of Homo sapiens in France
(Wiley, 2020) Sahra Talamo; Vera Aldeias; Paul Goldberg; Laurent Chiotti; H. L. Dibble; Guillaume Guérin; Jean‐Jacques Hublin; Stéphane Madelaine; Raquel Maria; Dennis Sandgathe
Abstract The grand abri at La Ferrassie (France) has been a key site for Palaeolithic research since the early part of the 20th century. It became the eponymous site for one variant of Middle Palaeolithic stone tools, and its sequence was used to define stages of the Aurignacian, an early phase of the Upper Palaeolithic. Several Neanderthal remains, including two relatively intact skeletons, make it one of the most important sites for the study of Neanderthal morphology and one of the more important data sets when discussing the Neanderthal treatment of the dead. However, the site has remained essentially undated. Our goal here is to provide a robust chronological framework of the La Ferrassie sequence to be used for broad regional models about human behaviour during the late Middle to Upper Palaeolithic periods. To achieve this goal, we used a combination of modern excavation methods, extensive geoarchaeological analyses, and radiocarbon dating. If we accept that Neanderthals were responsible for the Châtelperronian, then our results suggest an overlap of ca. 1600 years with the newly arrived Homo sapiens found elsewhere in France.