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Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2017

The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant

Ella Been
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Ariel Malinski-Buller
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Nuha Agha
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Daniella Mayer
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Lihi Levin
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Noam Greenbaum
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Netta Mitki
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Gregorio Oxilia
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Naomi Porat
Joel Roskin
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Michalle Soudack
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Nadav Nir
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Mareike Stahlschmidt
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Yoel Rak
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Omry Barzilai
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Abstract The late Middle Palaeolithic (MP) settlement patterns in the Levant included the repeated use of caves and open landscape sites. The fossil record shows that two types of hominins occupied the region during this period—Neandertals and Homo sapiens . Until recently, diagnostic fossil remains were found only at cave sites. Because the two populations in this region left similar material cultural remains, it was impossible to attribute any open-air site to either species. In this study, we present newly discovered fossil remains from intact archaeological layers of the open-air site ‘Ein Qashish, in northern Israel. The hominin remains represent three individuals: EQH1, a nondiagnostic skull fragment; EQH2, an upper right third molar (RM 3 ); and EQH3, lower limb bones of a young Neandertal male. EQH2 and EQH3 constitute the first diagnostic anatomical remains of Neandertals at an open-air site in the Levant. The optically stimulated luminescence ages suggest that Neandertals repeatedly visited ‘Ein Qashish between 70 and 60 ka. The discovery of Neandertals at open-air sites during the late MP reinforces the view that Neandertals were a resilient population in the Levant shortly before Upper Palaeolithic Homo sapiens populated the region.

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hal-04045332 , version 1 (24-03-2023)

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Ella Been, Erella Hovers, Ravid Ekshtain, Ariel Malinski-Buller, Nuha Agha, et al.. The first Neanderthal remains from an open-air Middle Palaeolithic site in the Levant. Scientific Reports, 2017, 7 (1), pp.2958. ⟨10.1038/s41598-017-03025-z⟩. ⟨hal-04045332⟩

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