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SUBMITTER: Staubwasser M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6140518 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Staubwasser Michael M Drăgușin Virgil V Onac Bogdan P BP Assonov Sergey S Ersek Vasile V Hoffmann Dirk L DL Veres Daniel D
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20180827 37
Two speleothem stable isotope records from East-Central Europe demonstrate that Greenland Stadial 12 (GS12) and GS10-at 44.3-43.3 and 40.8-40.2 ka-were prominent intervals of cold and arid conditions. GS12, GS11, and GS10 are coeval with a regional pattern of culturally (near-)sterile layers within Europe's diachronous archeologic transition from Neanderthals to modern human Aurignacian. Sterile layers coeval with GS12 precede the Aurignacian throughout the middle and upper Danube region. In som ...[more]