New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland).
Authors
Hajdinjak, Mateja
Urbanowski, Mikołaj
Marciszak, Adrian
Hublin, Jean-Jacques
Publication Date
2020-09-08Journal Title
Sci Rep
ISSN
2045-2322
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Volume
10
Issue
1
Language
en
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Article
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Picin, A., Hajdinjak, M., Nowaczewska, W., Benazzi, S., Urbanowski, M., Marciszak, A., Fewlass, H., et al. (2020). New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland).. Sci Rep, 10 (1) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71504-x
Abstract
The Micoquian is the broadest and longest enduring cultural facies of the Late Middle Palaeolithic that spread across the periglacial and boreal environments of Europe between Eastern France, Poland, and Northern Caucasus. Here, we present new data from the archaeological record of Stajnia Cave (Poland) and the paleogenetic analysis of a Neanderthal molar S5000, found in a Micoquian context. Our results demonstrate that the mtDNA genome of Stajnia S5000 dates to MIS 5a making the tooth the oldest Neanderthal specimen from Central-Eastern Europe. Furthermore, S5000 mtDNA has the fewest number of differences to mtDNA of Mezmaiskaya 1 Neanderthal from Northern Caucasus, and is more distant from almost contemporaneous Neanderthals of Scladina and Hohlenstein-Stadel. This observation and the technological affinity between Poland and the Northern Caucasus could be the result of increased mobility of Neanderthals that changed their subsistence strategy for coping with the new low biomass environments and the increased foraging radius of gregarious animals. The Prut and Dniester rivers were probably used as the main corridors of dispersal. The persistence of the Micoquian techno-complex in South-Eastern Europe infers that this axis of mobility was also used at the beginning of MIS 3 when a Neanderthal population turnover occurred in the Northern Caucasus.
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Article, /631/181/27, /631/181/2474, /631/181/414, article
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s41598-020-71504-x, 71504
External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71504-x
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/334772
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