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Return of the last Neanderthal

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New finds from Gibraltar date Mousterian tools to as recently as 28,000 years ago. By inference, their Neanderthal makers survived in southern Iberia long after all other well-dated occurrences of the species.

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Figure 1: Principal late Neanderthal/Mousterian sites across western Eurasia.

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  2. American Museum of Natural History, New York

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  3. Department of Human Evolution, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, Leipzig, D-04103, Germany

    Katerina Harvati

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Delson, E., Harvati, K. Return of the last Neanderthal. Nature 443, 762–763 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05207

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