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Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago
Cueva de los Aviones (southeast Spain) is a site of the Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic of Europe. It has yielded ochred and perforated marine shells, red and yellow colorants, and shell containers that feature residues of complex pigmentatious mixtures. Similar finds from the Middle Stone...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5833998/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29507889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar5255 |
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author | Hoffmann, Dirk L. Angelucci, Diego E. Villaverde, Valentín Zapata, Josefina Zilhão, João |
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description | Cueva de los Aviones (southeast Spain) is a site of the Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic of Europe. It has yielded ochred and perforated marine shells, red and yellow colorants, and shell containers that feature residues of complex pigmentatious mixtures. Similar finds from the Middle Stone Age of South Africa have been widely accepted as archaeological proxies for symbolic behavior. U-series dating of the flowstone capping the Cueva de los Aviones deposit shows that the symbolic finds made therein are 115,000 to 120,000 years old and predate the earliest known comparable evidence associated with modern humans by 20,000 to 40,000 years. Given our findings, it is possible that the roots of symbolic material culture may be found among the common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans, more than half-a-million years ago. |
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spelling | pubmed-58339982018-03-05 Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago Hoffmann, Dirk L. Angelucci, Diego E. Villaverde, Valentín Zapata, Josefina Zilhão, João Sci Adv Research Articles Cueva de los Aviones (southeast Spain) is a site of the Neandertal-associated Middle Paleolithic of Europe. It has yielded ochred and perforated marine shells, red and yellow colorants, and shell containers that feature residues of complex pigmentatious mixtures. Similar finds from the Middle Stone Age of South Africa have been widely accepted as archaeological proxies for symbolic behavior. U-series dating of the flowstone capping the Cueva de los Aviones deposit shows that the symbolic finds made therein are 115,000 to 120,000 years old and predate the earliest known comparable evidence associated with modern humans by 20,000 to 40,000 years. Given our findings, it is possible that the roots of symbolic material culture may be found among the common ancestor of Neandertals and modern humans, more than half-a-million years ago. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2018-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5833998/ /pubmed/29507889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar5255 Text en Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Hoffmann, Dirk L. Angelucci, Diego E. Villaverde, Valentín Zapata, Josefina Zilhão, João Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago |
title | Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago |
title_full | Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago |
title_fullStr | Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago |
title_full_unstemmed | Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago |
title_short | Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago |
title_sort | symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by iberian neandertals 115,000 years ago |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5833998/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29507889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aar5255 |
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