Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated
with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout …

Archeological analysis of faunal remains and of lithic and bone tools has suggested that
hunting of medium to large mammals was a major element of Neanderthal subsistence. Plant …

Debate continues concerning the role of the Neandertals in the emergence of early modern
Europeans. This paper presents one assessment of aspects of the morphological data, …

The 1998/1999 direct dating of two Neandertal specimens from level G 1 of Vindija Cave in
Croatia to ≈28,000 and ≈29,000 radiocarbon ( 14 C) years ago has led to interpretations …

New accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon dates taken directly on human remains from
the Late Pleistocene sites of Vindija and Velika Pećina in the Hrvatsko Zagorje of Croatia …

Previous dating of the Vi-207 and Vi-208 Neanderthal remains from Vindija Cave (Croatia)
led to the suggestion that Neanderthals survived there as recently as 28,000–29,000 BP …

This paper presents the first detailed analysis of the artefacts from the Mousterian level G3 at
Vindija Cave and a revision of the artefact analysis for the early Upper Paleolithic levels (j, i…

Beginning with excavations during the 1970s, Vindija Cave (Croatia) has yielded significant
Middle and Upper Paleolithic fossil and archaeological finds. We report on seven recently …

We report here protein sequences of fossil hominids, from two Neanderthals dating to ≈75,000
years old from Shanidar Cave in Iraq. These sequences, the oldest reported fossil …

During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 30 to 16.5 ka ago), the Great Adriatic-Po Region (GAPR)
was deeply affected by the spread of glaciers from the Alps to the southern foreland …