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Neandertal - modern human interactions in western Eurasia and the emergence of modern Europeans
Smith, Fred H. (2001)
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clipboard		 Smith F. "Neandertal - modern human interactions in western Eurasia and the emergence of modern Europeans.", timms video, Universität Tübingen (2001): https://timms.uni-tuebingen.de:443/tp/UT_20010411_001_evolution_0002. Accessed 02 Nov 2025.
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clipboard		 Smith, F. (2001). Neandertal - modern human interactions in western Eurasia and the emergence of modern Europeans. timms video: Universität Tübingen. Retrieved November 02, 2025 from the World Wide Web https://timms.uni-tuebingen.de:443/tp/UT_20010411_001_evolution_0002
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clipboard		 Smith, F. (2001). Neandertal - modern human interactions in western Eurasia and the emergence of modern Europeans [Online video]. 11 April. Available at: https://timms.uni-tuebingen.de:443/tp/UT_20010411_001_evolution_0002 (Accessed: 2 November 2025).
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title: Neandertal - modern human interactions in western Eurasia and the emergence of modern Europeans
alt. title: Advances in the Study of Human Evolution and Dispersal
creator: Smith, Fred H. (author)
subjects: Palaeolithic archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Palaeoanthropology, Pleistocene, Cranium, Neandertal, Neanderthal, Upper Palaeolithic, Morphology, Palaeoenvironment, Fred H. Smith
description: International symposium at the University of Tübingen, Germany, 8th-12th April 2001. This symposium explores the relationship between environmental change and the key events in the evolution and dispersal of the human clade, from its origin around 5-8 Myr to the expansion of Homo sapiens across the globe between 100 Kyr and 15 Kyr.
abstract: The role of Neandertals to the emergence of early modern humans in Europe has been a contentious issue since the first Neandertal was recognized in 1856. At the current time, a consensus is emerging that the appearance of modern Europeans resulted from episodes of significant immigration of populations into Europe during the later Interpleniglacial period (ca. 39 ka to 32 ka). Even during its colder stadials, the Interpleniglacial was milder that preceding or succeeding time spans, and this may have facilitated the movement of nomadic populations from western Asia into Europe. However, the nature of biocultural interaction between immigrant and indigenous populations in Europe during this period remains a topic of heated debate. Studies on ancient and recent mitochondrial DNA, interpretations of the archaeological record, and analyses of morphometric patterning of Late Pleistocene and recent human skeletal remains have all been cited as demonstrating that Neandertals were a separate evolutionary lineage from, and made no appreciable biological contributions to, early modern people. In this presentation, I will discuss the nature of the evidence suggesting that Neandertals did make a substantial contribution to early modern European populations. From the standpoint of anatomy, the evidence of such contributions is seen in details of structure rather than major aspects of anatomical gestalt. Nonetheless the presence of certain specific features in early modern European samples is difficult to explain if Neandertals are excluded from any biological role in their ancestry. In addition, aspects of chronological patterning, biogeography and the archaeological record suggest, but does not prove, the likelihood of significant interaction between Neandertal and early modern populations in various parts of Europe. From the various sources of available information, I will argue that the nature of interaction and population dynamics in Europe during the later Interpleniglacial were extremely complex and likely included the assimilation of Neandertal contributions into Biological structure of the first modern Europeans. Thus recent claims that Neandertals must represent a species separate from Homo sapiens are not compelling.
publisher: ZDV Universität Tübingen
contributors: Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung Universität Tübingen (producer), Conard, Nicholas John (organizer), Collard, Mark (organizer)
creation date: 2001-04-11
dc type: image
localtype: video
identifier: UT_20010411_001_evolution_0002
language: eng
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