Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France

Author:

Slimak Ludovic1ORCID,Zanolli Clément2ORCID,Higham Tom34ORCID,Frouin Marine356,Schwenninger Jean-Luc3,Arnold Lee J.7ORCID,Demuro Martina7ORCID,Douka Katerina48ORCID,Mercier Norbert9ORCID,Guérin Gilles10ORCID,Valladas Hélène10ORCID,Yvorra Pascale11ORCID,Giraud Yves11,Seguin-Orlando Andaine12ORCID,Orlando Ludovic12ORCID,Lewis Jason E.613ORCID,Muth Xavier14ORCID,Camus Hubert15,Vandevelde Ségolène1016ORCID,Buckley Mike17ORCID,Mallol Carolina18ORCID,Stringer Chris19ORCID,Metz Laure1120ORCID

Affiliation:

1. CNRS, UMR 5608, TRACES, Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 5 Allées Antonio Machado, 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9, France.

2. Université de Bordeaux, CNRS, MCC, PACEA, UMR 5199, 33600 Pessac, France.

3. Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Dyson Perrins Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.

4. Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, University Biology Building, Djerassiplatz 1, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.

5. Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, 255 Earth and Space Sciences Building, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100, USA.

6. Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364, USA.

7. School of Physical Sciences, Environment Institute, Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS), University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.

8. Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische, Str. 10, 07745 Jena, Germany.

9. CNRS, UMR 5060, Institut de Recherche sur les Archéomatériaux and Centre de Recherche en Physique Appliquée à l’Archéologie (CRP2A), Maison de l’Archéologie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 33607 Pessac, France.

10. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, UMR 8212 CEA CNRS UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

11. Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, Min. Culture, UMR 7269, LAMPEA, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, BP 647, 5 rue du Château de l’Horloge, F-13094, Aix-en-Provence Cedex 2, France.

12. CNRS, UMR 5288, CAGT, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.

13. Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4364, USA.

14. Get in Situ, CH1097 Riex, Switzerland.

15. PROTEE-EXPERT, 4 rue des Aspholdèles, 34750 Villeneuve-lès-Maguelone, France.

16. Université Paris 1–Panthéon-Sorbonne, Équipe Archéologies Environnementales, UMR 7041, ArScAn, Équipe Archéologies Environnementales, 21 allée de l’Université, 92023 Nanterre Cedex, France.

17. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.

18. Archaeological Micromorphology and Biomarkers Laboratory (AMBI Lab), Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica Antonio González, Departamento de Geografía e Historia, UDI Prehistoria, Arqueología e Historia Antigua, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain.

19. Centre for Human Evolution Research (CHER), Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK.

20. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Connecticut, 215 Glenbrook Road, U-4098, Storrs, CT 06269-4098, USA.

Abstract

Determining the extent of overlap between modern humans and other hominins in Eurasia, such as Neanderthals and Denisovans, is fundamental to understanding the nature of their interactions and what led to the disappearance of archaic hominins. Apart from a possible sporadic pulse recorded in Greece during the Middle Pleistocene, the first settlements of modern humans in Europe have been constrained to ~45,000 to 43,000 years ago. Here, we report hominin fossils from Grotte Mandrin in France that reveal the earliest known presence of modern humans in Europe between 56,800 and 51,700 years ago. This early modern human incursion in the Rhône Valley is associated with technologies unknown in any industry of that age outside Africa or the Levant. Mandrin documents the first alternating occupation of Neanderthals and modern humans, with a modern human fossil and associated Neronian lithic industry found stratigraphically between layers containing Neanderthal remains associated with Mousterian industries.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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