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An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago
Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of archaeological research has focused on Neanderthal material culture and subsistence strategies, little attention has been paid to th...
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author | Banks, William E. Moncel, Marie-Hélène Raynal, Jean-Paul Cobos, Marlon E. Romero-Alvarez, Daniel Woillez, Marie-Noëlle Faivre, Jean-Philippe Gravina, Brad d’Errico, Francesco Locht, Jean-Luc Santos, Frédéric |
author_facet | Banks, William E. Moncel, Marie-Hélène Raynal, Jean-Paul Cobos, Marlon E. Romero-Alvarez, Daniel Woillez, Marie-Noëlle Faivre, Jean-Philippe Gravina, Brad d’Errico, Francesco Locht, Jean-Luc Santos, Frédéric |
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description | Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of archaeological research has focused on Neanderthal material culture and subsistence strategies, little attention has been paid to the relationship between regionally specific cultural trajectories and their associated existing fundamental ecological niches, nor to how the latter varied across periods of climatic variability. We examine the Middle Paleolithic archaeological record of a naturally constrained region of Western Europe between 82,000 and 60,000 years ago using ecological niche modeling methods. Evaluations of ecological niche estimations, in both geographic and environmental dimensions, indicate that 70,000 years ago the range of suitable habitats exploited by these Neanderthal populations contracted and shifted. These ecological niche dynamics are the result of groups continuing to occupy habitual territories that were characterized by new environmental conditions during Marine Isotope Stage 4. The development of original cultural adaptations permitted this territorial stability. |
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spelling | pubmed-79358942021-03-08 An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago Banks, William E. Moncel, Marie-Hélène Raynal, Jean-Paul Cobos, Marlon E. Romero-Alvarez, Daniel Woillez, Marie-Noëlle Faivre, Jean-Philippe Gravina, Brad d’Errico, Francesco Locht, Jean-Luc Santos, Frédéric Sci Rep Article Middle Paleolithic Neanderthal populations occupied Eurasia for at least 250,000 years prior to the arrival of anatomically modern humans. While a considerable body of archaeological research has focused on Neanderthal material culture and subsistence strategies, little attention has been paid to the relationship between regionally specific cultural trajectories and their associated existing fundamental ecological niches, nor to how the latter varied across periods of climatic variability. We examine the Middle Paleolithic archaeological record of a naturally constrained region of Western Europe between 82,000 and 60,000 years ago using ecological niche modeling methods. Evaluations of ecological niche estimations, in both geographic and environmental dimensions, indicate that 70,000 years ago the range of suitable habitats exploited by these Neanderthal populations contracted and shifted. These ecological niche dynamics are the result of groups continuing to occupy habitual territories that were characterized by new environmental conditions during Marine Isotope Stage 4. The development of original cultural adaptations permitted this territorial stability. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7935894/ /pubmed/33674720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84805-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Banks, William E. Moncel, Marie-Hélène Raynal, Jean-Paul Cobos, Marlon E. Romero-Alvarez, Daniel Woillez, Marie-Noëlle Faivre, Jean-Philippe Gravina, Brad d’Errico, Francesco Locht, Jean-Luc Santos, Frédéric An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago |
title | An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago |
title_full | An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago |
title_fullStr | An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago |
title_full_unstemmed | An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago |
title_short | An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago |
title_sort | ecological niche shift for neanderthal populations in western europe 70,000 years ago |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7935894/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33674720 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84805-6 |
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