Chronology of hominin activity at Vindija Cave, Croatia: new dates recorded via standard and ultrafiltration AMS

The project 'Last Neanderthals at the Crossroads of Central Europe and the Mediterranean' (NECEM) combines lithic analyses of previously excavated material with new sampling for dating and environmental DNA. New radiocarbon dates from Vindija, presented here, help clarify the chronology of late Neanderthal and early modern human occupations in South-eastern and Central Europe. Keywords: South-eastern Europe, Neanderthals, early modern humans, radiocarbon dating, ultrafiltration, Mousterian, Aurignacian
Introduction Vindija cave, in northern Croatia, is one of the most significant Palaeolithic and Neanderthal fossil sites in Europe. It is one of nine Palaeolithic sites from the continental and [...]