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0000-0003-0712-2118
Current Organisation
Royal Holloway University of London
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Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2005
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2003
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Date: 23-07-2012
Abstract: Marked changes in human dispersal and development during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition have been attributed to massive volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using records of volcanic ash layers of the C anian Ignimbrite eruption dated to ca. 40,000 y ago (40 ka B.P.). The distribution of the C anian Ignimbrite has been enhanced by the discovery of cryptotephra deposits (volcanic ash layers that are not visible to the naked eye) in archaeological cave sequences. They enable us to synchronize archaeological and paleoclimatic records through the period of transition from Neanderthal to the earliest anatomically modern human populations in Europe. Our results confirm that the combined effects of a major volcanic eruption and severe climatic cooling failed to have lasting impacts on Neanderthals or early modern humans in Europe. We infer that modern humans proved a greater competitive threat to indigenous populations than natural disasters.
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2014
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2008
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2012
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2015
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2008
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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