A University of Vienna team extracted human nuclear DNA from a roughly 22,000-year-old sediment layer in El Mirón Cave, Spain, recovering some 14,700 SNPs. Combined with new genomes from France, Spain and Italy, the work shows gene flow between eastern and western Gravettian groups around 32,500–31,500 years ago, and reveals that Fournol-related ancestry persisted in southwestern Europe through the Last Glacial Maximum.