Direct dating of Neanderthal remains from the site of Vindija Cave and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 114, Issue 40, 2017, Pages 10606-10611

  Devièse, Thibaut ^a   Karavanić, Ivor ^b,c   Comeskey, Daniel ^a   Kubiak, Cara ^a   Korlević, Petra ^d   Hajdinjak, Mateja ^d   Radović, Siniša ^e   Procopio, Noemi ^f   Buckley, Michael ^f   Pääbo, Svante ^d   Higham, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA analysis; Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition; Single compound AMS dating; Vindija Cave (Croatia); Zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA; COLLAGEN; HYDROXYPROLINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BODY REMAINS; BONE; CAVE; CONTAMINATION; DNA CONTENT; DNA DETERMINATION; EASTERN EUROPE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ZOOLOGY; ANIMAL; CROATIA; FEMALE; FOSSIL; MALE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; CAVES; CROATIA; FEMALE; FOSSILS; MALE; NEANDERTHALS; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 85030224649     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1709235114     Document Type: Article

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