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Were Western European Neandertals able to make fire?

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Dibble,  Harold L.
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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McPherron,  Shannon       
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Aldeias,  Vera       
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Dibble, H. L., Sandgathe, D., Goldberg, P., McPherron, S., & Aldeias, V. (2018). Were Western European Neandertals able to make fire? Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 1(1), 54-79. doi:10.1007/s41982-017-0002-6.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0003-6621-5
Abstract
Significant variability has been observed in the frequency of fire use over the course of the Late Pleistocene at several Middle Paleolithic sites in southwest France. In particular, Neandertals appear to have used fire more frequently during warm climatic periods and very infrequently during cold periods. After reviewing several lines of evidence and alternative explanations for this variability, the null hypothesis that these Neandertals were not able to make fire still stands.