New tech reveals cave art found in Spain 65k years old. Humans arrive 45k years ago. You do the math. #NeanderthalsMakingArt #U-ThDating
Neanderthals painting animals, hand prints, shapes for 25k years. Expect more art finds to come. I guess art isn’t just for humans.
Neanderthals more human than we thought. What made us different? What happened to them?
Fall of the Laurentide❄ sent a surge of freshwater into the ?, causing ⬆? sea levels & is correlated w the onset of the Neolithic in Europe
C14 dating of marine ?? in previously freshwater Black? help ? flood event to ~8300 BP. Displaced ??? migrate out of flood prone areas
?Neolithic ??? pre-flooding in Europe. Establishment of ???? came shortly after flood events, indicating ?⬆ + climate change = major ?
How did #Neolithic farming spread to ??, by diffusion or by migration? Consider impact of environmental changes in SE near Mediterranean
The Black sea flooded around 8300 yrs ago (according to ? dating from old shorelines), likely due to SLR from Laurentide ice sheet melting
Early farmers relied on shores/floodplains for reliable ?. Flood here would force migration out into ?? and spread farming with migrants
U-th dating of carbonate on top of Iberian cave art and the underlying wall allows researchers to obtain a maximum and minimum age constraint.
The oldest minimum samples for all caves predate the arrival of modern humans by 20 kya, when Neandertals exclusively populated Iberia.
Evidence of Neanderthal populations using premeditated creation and hand placement suggests the origins of symbolic behavior and human symbolism.
Climate change resulted in a freshwater pulse that caused ? levels to rise a maximum of 1.4m #byebyeland #hellomigration #earlyHolocene
Floods triggered the displacement of coastal peoples, leading to cultural diffusion of ? techniques throughout Europe #modelssupportthis
Precise dating techniques helped determine the timeline of this transitional period. The Black ? was crucial for sampling #continentalshelf
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? = Sea
? = farming
Modern?? may not have been the 1st cave ???. U-Th carbon ? of cave in ?? shows that Neanderthals were the #RealPaleolithicPicassos
The cave ? is > 64.8ka – b4 the ? of modern ?? who @ 1st got credit for creating the symbolic cave ? #FakeNews #BattleOfTheHominin
? feat. ???, lines, shapes & deliberate✋?stencils #StoneAgeSymbolism. Neanderthals = complex, abstract thinkers #NeanderthalExcellence
BIG news for paleoanthropology from three ?? sites thanks to U-Th dating of carbonate crusts surrounding cave art #NeanderthalArt
Reliable samples showed a minimum age of 64.8ka or older for the art at each site, predating modern humans by 20ka! #NeanderthalArt
Deliberately placed hand stencils “constitute symbolic activity by definition.” Goodbye impossible coincidence argument! #NeanderthalArt
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New dating techniques indicate that flooding of the Black Sea coincides with climate change at the end of the last ice age. This time period
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also had a large expansion of agriculture in Europe. The expansion could be caused by the sea level rise and flooding of the Black Sea area.
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These findings have immense cultural and migratory implications of sea level and climate change. #AgricultureCulture #AncientFlood
art @3 caves in ?? d8 >64.8kya &mod humZ in euro only 45kya! shows we’re not the only ones with art chops #leoNEANDERTALdavinci #themoreukno
samples’ max/min age found by U-Th dating carbonate surrounding art #crusty #destructive #butnecessary #goodqualitycarbonateONLY
neandertals knew wuts^ w symbolic meaning. proof? #paintedonthewall #premeditatedart #sophistication #breakthestereotype #morethanjustrobust
Laurentide ❄sheet melts in N.⬆ Atlantic = large pulse of glacial freshwater into ocean. Sea level ? by 1.4m & climate change ❄?occurs.
?carbon dating & ?’s used to identify aprox time ? of flood event & locate the sudden burst of migrating Neolithic farming ???? sights
Neolithic farmers’ ???? low level land flooded forcing migration?. Displaced thousands ???? & drove the spread of farming ???? across the ???