The three waves: Rethinking the structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia

Slimak, Ludovic

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“…Archeological findings attest that the first forays of modern humans into Europe took place more than 50 kya 45 . The subsequent Paleolithic colonization movements are well documented by the European archaeological and anthropological records.…”

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“…Around 75 kya Neanderthals went down to the Levant 42 , a southward retreat that possibly extended to its entire geographic range having a parallel loss of ground by modern humans. Modern humans returned to the Levant around 50 kya 43,44 and made inroads into Neanderthal-occupied Europe since that time 45 . It has been proposed that this modern human secondary spread originated in Africa and recolonized the Levant confronting the Neanderthals.…”

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Early male and female footprints of modern humans across Eurasia and Australasia

Cabrera

2024

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As an alternative to a recent coastal southern route followed by modern humans to colonize Eurasia after an Out of Africa around 60 Kya, and under the premise that the evolutionary rate based coalescent ages slowdown going backwards in time, I propose a new model based on phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses of uniparental markers in present and past modern human populations across Eurasia and Australasia.The archaeological record favors a northern route that reached China around 120 kya and then descended latitudinally reaching Southeast Asia and islands around 70-60 kya. These ages coincide with the basal split of the mtDNA macrohaplogroup L3’4* and the origin of the Y-chromosome macrohaplogroup CT* and the subsequent splits in Eurasia of mtDNA haplogroups M and N and Y-chromosome C, D and F clades respectively.Roughly at the same time modern humans arrived in Australasia other groups retreated southwest returning to Africa carrying with them mtDNA L3 and Y-Chromosome E lineages.Southeast Asia and Southwest-Central Asia were the subsequent demographic centers for the respective colonization of East and northern Asia and Europe. Across the Ganges-Brahmaputra and the Indus valleys, South Asia was colonized from both migratory centers.

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Early male and female footprints of modern humans across Eurasia and Australasia

Cabrera

2024

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Valdeprovedo open-air site: a knapping event in the early Upper Paleolithic of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

Santamaría,

Navazo,

Benito-Calvo

et al. 2024

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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In this paper, we present the site of Valdeprovedo (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos), an open-air Paleolithic site. This site is attractive for study and research for three main reasons. First, it is an open-air site with an extraordinarily well-preserved lithic assemblage that corresponds to a very short-lived event. Second, in this small area, refits have been achieved with a high refitting rate, which allows us to reconstruct the action carried out in this place during a specific moment, around 28 ka. And third, this is the first site of this chronology that has been documented in the Sierra de Atapuerca, providing new data on the inland population of the Iberian Peninsula by Upper Paleolithic groups.

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Prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive model for the Châtelperronian stone tool industry during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain

Djakovic

Soressi

Roussel

2023

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The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain reflects the transition from Neandertals to Homo sapiens and the emergence of novel cultural entities and standardised laminar technologies between ~50 and 40 thousand years ago. The Chatelperronian stone tool industry sits at the centre of this period, and is commonly considered as representing a geographically isolated archaeological entity produced by late Neandertals. However, debate as to the makers and origin of this industry has long persisted. Fuel has recently been thrown onto this discussion through the formulation of a hypothesis in which the Chatelperronian directly originates from the Northern Early Ahmarian industry of the Levant. This model proposes that the Chatelperronian is in fact indicative of a direct migration of a population of Homo sapiens from the Levant to France around 44-40 thousand years ago, potentially via the crossing (or series of crossings) of the Mediterranean Sea. Such a scenario would have significant implications for how we interpret this key portion of recent human evolutionary history. In this paper, we highlight some of the prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive origin model for the emergence of the Chatelperronian industry in western Europe taking into account technological, chronological, geographic, and stratigraphic perspectives. To frame this discussion, we review the state of understanding on the Chatelperronian and provide a detailed, synthetic review of Chatelperronian lithic technology. Our review reinforces the distinctive and fully Upper Palaeolithic character of this industry, and we subsequently suggest a few avenues of research which, in our opinion, may help shed progressively clearer light on the demographic and cultural processes operating during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in western Europe.

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The three waves: Rethinking the structure of the first Upper Paleolithic in Western Eurasia

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Early male and female footprints of modern humans across Eurasia and Australasia

Early male and female footprints of modern humans across Eurasia and Australasia

Valdeprovedo open-air site: a knapping event in the early Upper Paleolithic of the Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain)

Prospects and pitfalls of an intrusive model for the Châtelperronian stone tool industry during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France and northern Spain

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