Re: Vindija Cave Neandertals redated

On 6 Jan 2006 09:24:25 -0800, "Lee Olsen" <paleocity@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>IMO, looking at the situation from a multi-disciplinary viewpoint
>rather than just 14C, the 'Harrold gap' still remains. This means
>with the recent trend of the younger Neandertal layers being re-dated
>older, there still is no hard evidence that the two groups ever came
>in contact with one another.

Recently there was a paper in NATURE by Peter Mellart on the type
locality of the Chatelperronien in southern Burgundy, France. There he
found indeed an Aurignac layer between two Mousterien layers. So it is
confirmed.

Nature 438, 51, 2005

fkoe
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