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Nature February 2024 PMID 38297117

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago.

Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Marcel Weiss, Helen Fewlass, Elena Irene Zavala, Hélène Rougier, Arev Pelin Sümer, Mateja Hajdinjak, Geoff M Smith, Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Sarah Pederzani, Elena Essel, Florian S Harking, Huan Xia, Jakob Hansen

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  • Homo sapiens spread to higher latitudes in Europe around 45,000 years ago, coinciding with the decline of Neanderthals.
  • Late Neanderthals coexisted with Homo sapiens for thousands of years, with occasional hybridization, and the transition period included various tech complexes, complicating the understanding of their interactions.
  • The study presents evidence from human remains linked to the Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ) technocomplex in Germany, indicating that early Homo sapiens were in northwestern Europe before the extinction of late Neanderthals in southwestern Europe.
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Mylopotamitaki, D., Weiss, M., Fewlass, H. et al. Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature (2024). https://t.co/npeDCicH5j

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And contributed significantly to the proteomic screening performed at Ranis, resulting in the recovery of some of the earliest human remains in Europe, and associated with the LRJ. https://t.co/GEFjnYi4iY

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Mylopotamitaki et al.: Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago (Nature) https://t.co/9UvMTlgnpL Reports the discovery and analysis of human remains directly associated with the LRJ technocomplex at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany.

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