Radiocarbon dating

I Hajdas, P Ascough, MH Garnett, SJ Fallon… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Radiocarbon dating uses the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure time
and date objects containing carbon-bearing material. With a half-life of 5,700±30 years …

Initial Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

JJ Hublin, N Sirakov, V Aldeias, S Bailey, E Bard… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe witnessed the replacement
and partial absorption of local Neanderthal populations by Homo sapiens populations of …

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

S Pederzani, K Britton, M Trost, H Fewlass… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
The spread of Homo sapiens into new habitats across Eurasia~ 45,000 years ago and the
concurrent disappearance of Neanderthals represents a critical evolutionary turnover in our …

A 14C chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria

H Fewlass, S Talamo, L Wacker, B Kromer… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The stratigraphy at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, spans the Middle to Upper
Palaeolithic transition, including an Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) assemblage argued to …

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

D Mylopotamitaki, M Weiss, H Fewlass, EI Zavala… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the
regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late …

A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum

V Villalba-Mouco, MS van de Loosdrecht… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of …

Optimal linear estimation models predict 1400–2900 years of overlap between Homo sapiens and Neandertals prior to their disappearance from France and northern …

I Djakovic, A Key, M Soressi - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Recent fossil discoveries suggest that Neandertals and Homo sapiens may have co-existed
in Europe for as long as 5 to 6000 years. Yet, evidence for their contemporaneity at any …

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

GM Smith, K Ruebens, EI Zavala… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Recent excavations at Ranis (Germany) identified an early dispersal of Homo
sapiens into the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Here we integrate results …

“Here we go again”: the inspection of collagen extraction protocols for 14C dating and palaeodietary analysis

S Talamo, H Fewlass, R Maria… - STAR: Science & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Archaeological bone collagen is highly useful for radiocarbon (14C) dating and
palaeodietary reconstruction. However, collagen preservation and carbon contamination are …

Linking structural and compositional changes in archaeological human bone collagen: An FTIR-ATR approach

A Martínez Cortizas, O López-Costas - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Collagen is the main structural and most abundant protein in the human body, and it is
routinely extracted and analysed in scientific archaeology. Its degree of preservation is …