Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal-modern human turnover in southern Italy

doi:10.1038/s41559-020-1243-1

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	Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal-modern human turnover in southern Italy
	Andrea, Columbu 1; Veronica, Chiarini 1; Christoph, Spoetl 2; Stefano, Benazzi 3,4; John, Hellstrom 5; Hai, Cheng 6,7,8; Jo, De Waele 1
通讯作者	Andrea, Columbu(andrea.columbu2@unibo.it)
	2020-07-06
发表期刊	NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
ISSN	2397-334X
页码	17
摘要	The causes of Neanderthal-modern human (MH) turnover are ambiguous. While potential biocultural interactions between the two groups are still little known, it is clear that Neanderthals in southern Europe disappeared about 42 thousand years ago (ka) after cohabitation for similar to 3,000 years with MH. Among a plethora of hypotheses on Neanderthal extinction, rapid climate changes during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition (MUPT) are regarded as a primary factor. Here we show evidence for stable climatic and environmental conditions during the MUPT in a region (Apulia) where Neanderthals and MH coexisted. We base our findings on a rare glacial stalagmite deposited between similar to 106 and similar to 27 ka, providing the first continuous western Mediterranean speleothem palaeoclimate archive for this period. The uninterrupted growth of the stalagmite attests to the constant availability of rainfall and vegetated soils, while its delta C-13-delta O-18 palaeoclimate proxies demonstrate that Apulia was not affected by dramatic climate oscillations during the MUPT. Our results imply that, because climate did not play a key role in the disappearance of Neanderthals in this area, Neanderthal-MH turnover must be approached from a perspective that takes into account climatic and environmental conditions favourable for both species.
DOI	10.1038/s41559-020-1243-1
关键词[WOS]	CLIMATE VARIABILITY ; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION ; NORTHERN-HEMISPHERE ; PALAEO-CLIMATE ; APUAN ALPS ; LAST ; EUROPE ; DISPERSAL ; MACEDONIA ; EVOLUTION
收录类别	SCI ; SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Leonardo Da Vinci Grant 2019 (DD MIUR)[787] ; ERC[724046-SUCCESS] ; NSFC[41888101] ; Grotte di Castellana ; Federazione Speleologica Pugliese
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
项目资助者	Leonardo Da Vinci Grant 2019 (DD MIUR) ; ERC ; NSFC ; Grotte di Castellana ; Federazione Speleologica Pugliese
WOS类目	Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000546753500006
出版者	NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
引用统计	被引频次：35[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/15005
专题	中国科学院地球环境研究所
通讯作者	Andrea, Columbu
作者单位	1.Univ Bologna, Dept Biol Geol & Environm Sci, Bologna, Italy 2.Univ Innsbruck, Inst Geol, Innsbruck, Austria 3.Univ Bologna, Dept Cultural Heritage, Bologna, Italy 4.Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, Leipzig, Germany 5.Univ Melbourne, Sch Earth Sci, Melbourne, Vic, Australia 6.Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Inst Global Environm Change, Xian, Peoples R China 7.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian, Peoples R China 8.Univ Minnesota, Dept Earth Sci, Minneapolis, MN USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Andrea, Columbu,Veronica, Chiarini,Christoph, Spoetl,et al. Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal-modern human turnover in southern Italy[J]. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION,2020:17.
APA	Andrea, Columbu.,Veronica, Chiarini.,Christoph, Spoetl.,Stefano, Benazzi.,John, Hellstrom.,...&Jo, De Waele.(2020).Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal-modern human turnover in southern Italy.NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION,17.
MLA	Andrea, Columbu,et al."Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal-modern human turnover in southern Italy".NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2020):17.