PMID- 37202264
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230619
LR  - 20231124
IS  - 2095-9281 (Electronic)
IS  - 2095-9273 (Linking)
VI  - 68
IP  - 11
DP  - 2023 Jun 15
TI  - Assessing climatic impact on transition from Neanderthal to anatomically modern 
      human population on Iberian Peninsula: a macroscopic perspective.
PG  - 1176-1186
LID - S2095-9273(23)00279-7 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scib.2023.04.025 [doi]
AB  - The Iberian Peninsula is of particular interest for the research on the 
      Neanderthal (NEA) to anatomically modern human (AMH) population transition. The 
      AMHs arrived in Iberia last from Eastern Europe and thus any possible contacts 
      between the two populations occurred here later than elsewhere. The transition 
      process took place in the earlier part of the Marine Isotope Stage 3 ( approximately 60-27 cal 
      ka BP) as repeated and profound climate changes challenged the population 
      stability. To investigate how climate change and population interactions 
      influenced the transition, we combine climate data with archaeological-site data 
      to reconstruct the Human Existence Potential, a measure of the probability of 
      human existence, for both the NEA and AMH populations in the Greenland 
      Interstadial 11-10 (GI11-10) and Stadial 10-9/Heinrich event 4 (GS10-9/HE4) 
      times. It is found that during GS10-9/HE4, large parts of the peninsula became 
      unsuitable for NEA human existence and the NEA settlement areas contracted to 
      isolated coastal hot spots. As a consequence, the NEA networks became highly 
      unstable, triggering the final collapse of the population. The AMHs arrived in 
      Iberia in GI10 but were confined to patches in the northern most strip of the 
      peninsula. They were soon facing the much colder climate of GS10-9/HE4, which 
      prevented their further expansion or even caused a contraction of their 
      settlement areas. Thus, due to the constellation of climate change and the 
      dispersal of the two populations into different regions of the peninsula, it is 
      unlikely that the NEAs and AMHs coexisted in extensive areas and the AMHs had a 
      significant influence on the demography of the NEAs.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023. Published by Elsevier B.V.
FAU - Klein, Konstantin
AU  - Klein K
AD  - Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne 50923, 
      Germany.
FAU - Weniger, Gerd-Christian
AU  - Weniger GC
AD  - Institute of Prehistory, University of Cologne, Cologne 50923, Germany.
FAU - Ludwig, Patrick
AU  - Ludwig P
AD  - Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 
      Karlsruhe 76131, Germany.
FAU - Stepanek, Christian
AU  - Stepanek C
AD  - Paleoclimate Dynamics, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and 
      Marine Research, Bremerhaven 27570, Germany.
FAU - Zhang, Xu
AU  - Zhang X
AD  - Alpine Paleoecology and Human Adaption Group, State Key Laboratory of Tibetan 
      Plateau Earth System, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
FAU - Wegener, Christian
AU  - Wegener C
AD  - Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne 50923, 
      Germany.
FAU - Shao, Yaping
AU  - Shao Y
AD  - Institute for Geophysics and Meteorology, University of Cologne, Cologne 50923, 
      Germany. Electronic address: yshao@uni-koeln.de.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230426
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Bull (Beijing)
JT  - Science bulletin
JID - 101655530
RN  - 80497-65-0 (Anti-Mullerian Hormone)
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Animals
MH  - *Neanderthals
MH  - Fossils
MH  - Europe
MH  - Europe, Eastern
MH  - Archaeology
MH  - Anti-Mullerian Hormone
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Aurignacian
OT  - Human Existence Potential
OT  - Iberia
OT  - Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition
OT  - Neanderthals
COIS- Conflict of interest The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/05/19 01:04
MHDA- 2023/06/19 13:08
CRDT- 2023/05/18 22:00
PHST- 2022/11/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/03/18 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/03/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/06/19 13:08 [medline]
PHST- 2023/05/19 01:04 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/05/18 22:00 [entrez]
AID - S2095-9273(23)00279-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scib.2023.04.025 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Bull (Beijing). 2023 Jun 15;68(11):1176-1186. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scib.2023.04.025. Epub 2023 Apr 26.