scholarly journals The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Hohlenstein-Stadel cave (Swabian Jura, Germany): A comparison between ESR, U-series and radiocarbon dating

2020 ◽  
Vol 556 ◽  
pp. 49-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Richard ◽  
C. Falguères ◽  
E. Pons-Branchu ◽  
D. Richter ◽  
T. Beutelspacher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic

scholarly journals The First Neolithic Occupation of La Cova del Randero (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain)

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1492-1505
Author(s):  
Consuelo Roca de Togores Muñoz ◽  
Laura M. Sirvent Cañada ◽  
Silvia Martínez Amorós ◽  
Olga Gómez Pérez ◽  
Virginia Barciela González ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Ovis Aries ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
Environmental Characteristics ◽  
Farming Communities ◽  
Multidisciplinary Study ◽  
Pastoral Communities ◽  
Mountain Environment

Abstract The excavations at “Cova del Randero” (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain) began in 2007 within the programme of archaeological interventions of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante. The cavity, located in one of the valleys that connect the coast with the inland mountains, presents a wide sequence of occupations that begins in the Upper Palaeolithic and continues throughout the different phases of the Neolithic. The results of a multidisciplinary study, carried out in an archaeological context associated with the first Neolithic presence of the cavity, are presented here. This occupation is defined by a unique combustion structure to which a set of artefacts and biofacts are linked. This archaeological context, probably of a specific nature, is related to the first agro-pastoral communities settled in the area. The fireplace is well defined stratigraphically and sedimentologically because of its reddish soil, which corresponds to hunter-gatherer occupation levels of the cavity, and under the greyish sediments that characterise the use of the cave as a fold during the Middle Neolithic. This occupation event was dated both by the associated materials, among which a fragment of cardial ceramic was found, and by radiocarbon dating of a metacarpus of Ovis aries around 5075–4910 cal BC (epicardial Early Neolithic). This data allows us to link the occupation of the cavity at this time with pastoral activity in a medium mountain environment. However, it also allows us to infer the environmental characteristics in which the first farming communities of the mountains of Alicante were developed.

Dating Magdalenian Art in North Spain: The Current Situation

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
César González Sainz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Lower Number ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
Stratigraphic Sequences ◽  
Cave Art

The graphic activity of Magdalenian human groups forms the most spectacular part of the archaeological record in Cantabrian Spain and, at the same time, represents probably the most expressive aspect of the culture of those Upper Palaeolithic hunters. Since the early 1990s, several projects have tried to fix more precisely the chronology of the cave art through the application of radiocarbon dating by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (Valladas et al. 1992, 2001; Moure Romanillo and González Sainz 2000; Fortea Pérez 2002). The present article attempts an integrated discussion of the results of the absolute chronology for Magdalenian cave art and the present situation of the most reliable parallels between this and the mobile art of the same period. It is well known that the ordering in time of cave art is rather more complex than that of decorated objects, which are dated by their archaeological context (and therefore both this context and the artefacts themselves can be dated by radiocarbon). In Cantabrian Spain, the approaches to dating cave art, especially for the Magdalenian depictions, are the series of superimpositions known on certain walls of a few caves, the analogy with stratified mobile art, and absolute dating, essentially for this period, radiocarbon dating by accelerator. Other procedures, such as the correlation with stratigraphic sequences, offer good results in pre-Magdalenian periods (Fortea 1994), but are limited in the period that interests us here to just a few cases, such as Cueva del Mirón, in relation with some rather modest depictions (González Morales and Straus, 2000). 1. Series of superimposed figures of different kinds have often been described, on panels in a limited number of cave sites. In Cantabrian Spain, the main examples are found in the caves of La Peña del Candamo, Tito Bustillo, Llonín, Altamira, El Castillo, La Pasiega, and La Garma Lower Passage—in other words, the main cave art centres, repeatedly used over long periods in the Upper Palaeolithic. These sites tend to differ quite clearly from the other cave art sites, which are more or less synchronic internally (they have a much lower number of depictions which, above all, are more homogeneous in style and techniques).

Accelerator radiocarbon dating of the initial Upper Palaeolithic in southeast Siberia

Antiquity ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 69 (263) ◽  
pp. 349-357 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Goebel ◽  
Mikhail Aksenov
Keyword(s):  
Lake Baikal ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Baikal Region ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Lake Baikal Region

Across Eurasia and Africa new studies are encouraging archaeologists to rethink the age of of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. In the Lake Baikal region of southeast Siberia, new radiocarbon determinations on sites of difficult history suggest that the earliest Upper Palaeolithic emerged there as early as 39,000 years ago, 6000 years earlier than previously thought.

scholarly journals Birds and bovids: new parietal engravings at the Romanelli Cave, Apulia

Antiquity ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Dario Sigari ◽  
Ilaria Mazzini ◽  
Jacopo Conti ◽  
Luca Forti ◽  
Giuseppe Lembo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reference Point ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Western Eurasia ◽  
Tools And Techniques ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Palaeolithic Art ◽  
Portable Art

ABSTRACT The Romanelli Cave in south-east Italy is an important reference point for the so-called ‘Mediterranean province’ of European Upper Palaeolithic art. Yet, the site has only recently been subject to a systematic investigation of its parietal and portable art. Starting in 2016, a project has recorded the cave's interior, discovering new parietal art. Here, the authors report on a selection of panels, featuring animal figures, geometric motifs and other marks, identifying the use of different types of tools and techniques, along with several activity phases. These panels are discussed with reference to radiocarbon dating of nearby deposits, posing questions about chronology, technology and wider connections between Upper Palaeolithic cave sites across western Eurasia.

scholarly journals A genomic dating tool resolves the origins of ancient Eurasian genomes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Esposito ◽  
G. Holland ◽  
G. Alshehab ◽  
A. M. Dobre ◽  
M. Pirooznia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Population Structure ◽  
Dna Sequences ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Phenotypic Traits ◽  
Test Cases ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Gold Standard Method ◽  
Human Genomes ◽  
Dating Method

AbstractRadiocarbon dating is the gold-standard in archaeology to estimate the age of skeletons, a key to studying their origins. Nearly half of all published ancient human genomes lack reliable and direct dates, which results in obscure and contradictory reports. Here, we developed the Temporal Population Structure (TPS), the first DNA-based dating method for ancient genomes ranging from the Upper Palaeolithic to modern-day samples and applied it to 1559 ancient Europeans, Asians, and Caucasus individuals and to 2117 modern worldwide individuals. We show that TPS predictions for dated skeletons align with their known dates and correctly account for kin relationships. The TPS-dating of poorly dated Eurasian samples resolves conflicts and sheds new light on disputed findings, as illustrated by four test cases. We discuss the phenotypic traits of the Time Informative Markers (TIMs) that underlie TPS.SummaryTPS is a novel method to date humans from the Upper Palaeolithic to modern time from their DNA sequences.Accurate dating is essential to the interepretation of paleogemonic data.. The gold-standard method in archaeology is radiocarbon dating1. However, a major limitation of radiocarbon dating is the high amount of collagen extraction (500 mg) involved in the process2. Consequently, half of all published ancient human genomes lack reliable and direct dates, which results in obscure and contradictory reports. Here, we present the Temporal Population Structure (TPS), the first genomic dating method for ancient genomes ranging from the Upper Palaeolithic to modern-day samples. We show that TPS predictions for 961 radiocarbon-dated Eurasian skeletons align with their known dates. We replicate these findings on 598 other Europeans, Asians and Caucasus individuals. Using kin-pairs, we demonstrate that TPS has produced more accurate results than radiocarbon and other dating. We show how our findings resolve conflicts and sheds new light on disputed findings as illustrated by four test cases. Finally, we discuss the phenotypic traits of the Time Informative Markers (TIMs) that underlie TPS. TPS is a novel dating technique, which can be used when radiocarbon dating is unfeasible or uncertain or to develop alternative hypotheses. TPS cannot be used for older (<14,000 years ago) samples, and its accuracy depends on the temporal and geographical breadth of radiocarbon-dated samples in the training dataset, though this limitation can be improved over time. Overall, TPS can improve the accuracy of archeological and paleogenomic studies.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Dating in the Southern Levant

Radiocarbon ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Southern Levant

Radiocarbon dating provides the principal chronometric data for the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolithic, and Chalcolithic periods in the southern Levant. It is a secondary source of dating evidence for the Early Bronze age, when archaeological correlations with Syria and especially Egypt become available. For the Middle and Late Bronze age, Iron age, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods, 14C dating has only limited value because the technique is less precise than the normally available archaeologic and historic materials.

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