Un nouveau faciès lamellaire du début du Paléolithique supérieur dans les Balkans

Sirakov, Nikolay; Tsanova, Tsenka; Sirakova, Svoboda; Taneva, Stanimira; Krumov, Ivaylo; Dimitrova, Irena; Kovatcheva, Natalia

doi:10.4000/paleo.565

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“…This route is often referred to as the "Danube Corridor" Bolus, 2003, 2008), and the validation of such a hypothesis requires the presence of the oldest sites (proto-Aurignacian or perhaps Bohunician) in the southern Balkans. This is partly confirmed by sites such as Bacho Kiro and Kozarnika in Bulgaria (Sirakov et al, 2007), and further supported by the findings of the oldest modern human skeletal material in the Banat region of Romania, at Peş tera cu Oase (Trinkaus et al, 2003), as well as by other recently revisited early Upper Paleolithic sites such as Româneş ti-Dumbr avit¸a and Coş ava in the Romanian Banat (Sitlivy et al, 2014).…”

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Geoarchaeological prospection in the loess steppe: Preliminary results from the Lower Danube Survey for Paleolithic Sites (LoDanS)

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Fitzsimmons

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Quaternary International

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Geoarchaeological prospection in the loess steppe: Preliminary results from the Lower Danube Survey for Paleolithic Sites (LoDanS)

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“…S2). Although this is only a small sample, we can note technological similarities with Proto-Aurignacian retouched bladelets from, e.g., Isturitz, Grotte du Renne and Les Cottés in France, Fumane in Italy, Kozarnika in Bulgaria, and Siuren I in Crimea (Perpère and Schmider, 2002;Sirakov et al, 2007;Normand et al, 2009;Tsanova et al, 2012;Falcucci et al, 2018). This includes: unipolar production employing core abrasion and marginal percussion; straight/slightly curved profiles; and similar size (Table 10).…”

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“…Bladelets were produced from dedicated prismatic bladelet cores and from the edge of large flakes (Demidenko, 2009). To the west, Beregovo I in the Transcarpathia region of Ukraine has been described as Proto-Aurignacian (Usik, 2008;Usik et al, 2013), as have several sites west of the Black Sea (e.g., Kozarnika VII, Tincova, Româneşti-Dumbrăviţa I;Sirakov et al, 2007;Demidenko and Noiret, 2012b;Tsanova et al, 2012, Schmidt et al, 2013.…”

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New data for the Early Upper Paleolithic of Kostenki (Russia)

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Bessudnov

Reynolds

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Journal of Human Evolution

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Several questions remain regarding the timing and nature of the Neanderthal-anatomically modern human (AMH) transition in Europe. The situation in Eastern Europe is generally less clear due to the relatively few sites and a dearth of reliable radiocarbon dates. Claims have been made for both notably early AMH and notably late Neanderthal presence, as well as for early AMH (Aurignacian) dispersal into the region from Central/Western Europe. The Kostenki-Borshchevo complex (European Russia) of Early Upper Paleolithic (EUP) sites offers high-quality data to address these questions.Here we revise the chronology and cultural status of the key sites of Kostenki 17 and Kostenki 14. The Kostenki 17/II lithic assemblage shares important features with Proto-Aurignacian material, strengthening an association with AMHs. New radiocarbon dates for Kostenki 17/II of ~41-40 ka cal BP agree with new dates for the recently excavated Kostenki 14/IVw, which shows some similarities to Kostenki 17/II. Dates of ≥41 ka cal BP from other Kostenki sites cannot be linked to diagnostic archaeological material, and therefore cannot be argued to date AMH occupation. Kostenki 14's Layer in Volcanic Ash assemblage, on the other hand, compares to Early Aurignacian material. New radiocarbon dates targeting diagnostic lithics date to 39-37 ka cal BP. Overall, Kostenki's early EUP is in good agreement with the archaeological record further west. Our results are therefore consistent with models predicting interregional penecontemporaneity of diagnostic EUP assemblages. Most importantly, our work highlights ongoing challenges for reliably radiocarbon dating the period. Dates for Kostenki 14 agreed with the samples' chronostratigraphic positions, but standard pre-treatment methods consistently produced incorrect ages for Kostenki 17/II. Extraction of hydroxyproline from bone collagen using prep-HPLC, however, yielded results consistent with the samples' chronostratigraphic position and with the layer's archaeological contents. This suggests that for some sites compound-specific techniques are required to build reliable radiocarbon chronologies.

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“…Despite controversies about routes out of Africa, the first Upper Paleolithic (UP) industries of Eurasia are found in the Levant from c. 48 ka (4,5). Expansion into Europe took place through multiple events that by c. 40 ka had generated a spatially and culturally structured Anatomically Modern Human (AMH) populationfrom Russia (6), to Georgia (7), Bulgaria (8), southern Europe (9,10) and the UK (11). The few AMH fossils associated with these initial UP industries are morphologically variable (9,(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17).…”

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Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

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Korneliussen

Sikora

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The origin of contemporary Europeans remains contentious. We obtained a genome sequence from Kostenki 14 in European Russia dating from 38,700 to 36,200 years ago, one of the oldest fossils of anatomically modern humans from Europe. We find that Kostenki 14 shares a close ancestry with the 24,000-year-old Mal'ta boy from central Siberia, European Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, some contemporary western Siberians, and many Europeans, but not eastern Asians. Additionally, the Kostenki 14 genome shows evidence of shared ancestry with a population basal to all Eurasians that also relates to later European Neolithic farmers. We find that Kostenki 14 contains more Neandertal DNA that is contained in longer tracts than present Europeans. Our findings reveal the timing of divergence of western Eurasians and East Asians to be more than 36,200 years ago and that European genomic structure today dates back to the Upper Paleolithic and derives from a metapopulation that at times stretched from Europe to central Asia.

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Un nouveau faciès lamellaire du début du Paléolithique supérieur dans les Balkans

Cited by 12 publications

References 10 publications

Geoarchaeological prospection in the loess steppe: Preliminary results from the Lower Danube Survey for Paleolithic Sites (LoDanS)

Geoarchaeological prospection in the loess steppe: Preliminary results from the Lower Danube Survey for Paleolithic Sites (LoDanS)

New data for the Early Upper Paleolithic of Kostenki (Russia)

Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years

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