When did Homo sapiens first reach Southeast Asia and Sahul?

JF O'Connell, J Allen, MAJ Williams… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens, AMH) began spreading across Eurasia from
Africa and adjacent Southwest Asia about 50,000–55,000 years ago (ca. 50–55 ka). Some …

[HTML][HTML] The modern human colonization of western Eurasia: when and where?

JJ Hublin - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
Dating the timing of the replacement of local Neandertal populations by modern humans in
western Eurasia at the dawn of the Upper Palaeolithic remains challenging due to the …

[HTML][HTML] Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

M Hajdinjak, F Mafessoni, L Skov, B Vernot, A Hübner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Modern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, but the extent
of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago 6, and …

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 …

Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

Q Fu, H Li, P Moorjani, F Jay, SM Slepchenko… - Nature, 2014 - nature.com
We present the high-quality genome sequence of a∼ 45,000-year-old modern human male
from Siberia. This individual derives from a population that lived before—or simultaneously …

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 …

Reconstructing the genetic history of late Neanderthals

M Hajdinjak, Q Fu, A Hübner, M Petr, F Mafessoni… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Although it has previously been shown that Neanderthals contributed DNA to modern
humans,, not much is known about the genetic diversity of Neanderthals or the relationship …

Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behaviour

S Benazzi, K Douka, C Fornai, CC Bauer, O Kullmer… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The appearance of anatomically modern humans in Europe and the nature of the transition
from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic are matters of intense debate. Most researchers …

Direct astronomical influence on abrupt climate variability

X Zhang, S Barker, G Knorr, G Lohmann… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the magnitude of millennial-scale climate variability (MCV) during the
Late Pleistocene occur as a function of changing background climate state over tens of …

[HTML][HTML] High-precision 14C and 40Ar/39Ar dating of the Campanian Ignimbrite (Y-5) reconciles the time-scales of climatic-cultural processes at 40 ka

B Giaccio, I Hajdas, R Isaia, A Deino, S Nomade - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract The Late Pleistocene Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) super-eruption (Southern Italy) is
the largest known volcanic event in the Mediterranean area. The CI tephra is widely …