East-to-west human dispersal into Europe 1.4 million years ago
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985530%3A_____%2F24%3A00585012" target="_blank" >RIV/67985530:_____/24:00585012 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081758:_____/24:00585024 RIV/67985912:_____/24:00585024 RIV/61389005:_____/24:00585012 RIV/00216208:11310/24:10481204 RIV/00025798:_____/24:10169152
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07151-3" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07151-3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07151-3" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41586-024-07151-3</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
East-to-west human dispersal into Europe 1.4 million years ago
Original language description
Stone tools stratified in alluvium and loess at Korolevo, western Ukraine, have been studied by several research groups1,2,3 since the discovery of the site in the 1970s. Although Korolevo’s importance to the European Palaeolithic is widely acknowledged, age constraints on the lowermost lithic artefacts have yet to be determined conclusively. Here, using two methods of burial dating with cosmogenic nuclides4,5, we report ages of 1.42 ± 0.10 million years and 1.42 ± 0.28 million years for the sedimentary unit that contains Mode-1-type lithic artefacts. Korolevo represents, to our knowledge, the earliest securely dated hominin presence in Europe, and bridges the spatial and temporal gap between the Caucasus (around 1.85–1.78 million years ago)6 and southwestern Europe (around 1.2–1.1 million years ago)7,8. Our findings advance the hypothesis that Europe was colonized from the east, and our analysis of habitat suitability9 suggests that early hominins exploited warm interglacial periods to disperse into higher latitudes and relatively continental sites—such as Korolevo—well before the Middle Pleistocene Transition.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10508 - Physical geography
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Nature
ISSN
0028-0836
e-ISSN
1476-4687
Volume of the periodical
627
Issue of the periodical within the volume
8005
Country of publishing house
DE - GERMANY
Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
805-810
UT code for WoS article
001185076800010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85186873621