Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

J Lowe, N Barton, S Blockley… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using records of
volcanic ash layers of … of cryptotephra deposits (volcanic ash layers that are not visible to the …

[PDF][PDF] Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

KG CG, RH MH, SL CSL, AM ML, WM MM, CP MP… - academia.edu
volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using records of
volcanic ash layers of … of cryptotephra deposits (volcanic ash layers that are not visible to the …

[PDF][PDF] Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early Modern Humans to natural hazards

R TEAM, J Lowe, N Barton, S Blockley - academia.edu
volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using new records
of volcanic ash layers … of ‘cryptotephra’ deposits, volcanic ash layers that are not visible to …

“Keep the Home Fires Burning”: Neanderthal fuel selection as a cognitively modern process

RJC Knight - 2024 - eprints.bbk.ac.uk
… Alternatively, they may want maximum lighting effects, and thus burn Betula (Table 9.8, …
Neanderthal fire use and how we can detect it. It focuses not only on obvious charcoal, ash layers

Neandertal demise: an archaeological analysis of the modern human superiority complex

P Villa, W Roebroeks - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… that the early modern human morphology emerged in East Africa possibly as early as …
dates on shell beads for the layer containing the modern human teeth at Grotta del Cavallo …

Insights into the timing, intensity and natural setting of Neanderthal occupation from the geoarchaeological study of combustion structures: A micromorphological and …

L Leierer, M Jambrina-Enríquez, AV Herrera-Herrera… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… No signs of human activity were observed besides the lightingash layers (WLs) and trace
amounts of scattered bone and flint flakes in BLs, RLs and Xb. Only ephemeral signs of human

The Campanian Ignimbrite eruption: new data on volcanic ash dispersal and its potential impact on human evolution

KE Fitzsimmons, U Hambach, D Veres, R Iovita - PLoS One, 2013 - journals.plos.org
… of anatomically modern humans, the demise of Neanderthals, … on hominin populations and
their resilience during this critical … The currently known distribution of the thickest ash layers

The earliest modern human colonization of Europe

JJ Hublin - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
… the Aurignacian as a proxy for the first expansion of modern humans into Europe. Thus, …
modern invaders and late Neanderthal populations have mostly focused on the age of the first

Significance of ecological factors in the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition

LV Golovanova, VB Doronichev… - Current …, 2010 - journals.uchicago.edu
… of early modern humans over contemporary Neanderthals … the Neanderthal population was
smaller and less resilient than … The chemical compositions of the volcanic ashes in layers 2B-…

On the chronology of the Uluzzian

K Douka, TFG Higham, R Wood, P Boscato… - Journal of human …, 2014 - Elsevier
… C derives from the more resilient organic (collagen) fraction. … , its connection with the earliest
modern humans in Europe, a … layers (NF I), followed by a thin layer of green volcanic ash (…