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SUBMITTER: Haws JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7568277 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haws Jonathan A JA Benedetti Michael M MM Talamo Sahra S Bicho Nuno N Cascalheira João J Ellis M Grace MG Carvalho Milena M MM Friedl Lukas L Pereira Telmo T Zinsious Brandon K BK
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200928 41
Documenting the first appearance of modern humans in a given region is key to understanding the dispersal process and the replacement or assimilation of indigenous human populations such as the Neanderthals. The Iberian Peninsula was the last refuge of Neanderthal populations as modern humans advanced across Eurasia. Here we present evidence of an early Aurignacian occupation at Lapa do Picareiro in central Portugal. Diagnostic artifacts were found in a sealed stratigraphic layer dated 41.1 to 3 ...[more]