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Vogelherd fossils are dated to Neolithic
« * on:* July 08, 2004, 03:12:17 AM »
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All,
Some breaking news in the July 8, 2004 issue of Nature. It seems the
Vogelherd "key fossils" (formerly) associated with the Aurignacian tools
and art have been directly dated to between 3900 and 5000 rcyr bp.
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Nature 430, 198 - 201 (08 July 2004); doi:10.1038/nature02690
Unexpectedly recent dates for human remains from Vogelherd
NICHOLAS J. CONARD, PIETER M. GROOTES & FRED H. SMITH
[first paragraph]
The human skeletal remains from the Vogelherd cave in the Swabian Jura
of southwestern Germany are at present seen as the best evidence that
modern humans produced the artefacts of the early Aurignacian.
Radiocarbon measurements from all the key fossils from Vogelherd show
that these human remains actually date to the late Neolithic, between
3,900 and 5,000 radiocarbon years before present (BP). Although many
questions remain unresolved, these results weaken the arguments for the
Danube Corridor hypothesis?that there was an early migration of modern
humans into the Upper Danube drainage?and strengthen the view that
Neanderthals may have contributed significantly to the development of
Upper Palaeolithic cultural traits independent of the arrival of modern
humans.
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