scholarly journals Novas datações pelo carbono-14 para as ocupações holocénicas do Prazo (Freixo de Numão, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Norte de Portugal)

2012 ◽  
pp. 22-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sérgio Monteiro-Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
The Third ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
Sedimentary Dynamics ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Late Mesolithic

Recentemente obtiveram-se cinco novas datações pelo radiocarbono para as ocupações holocénicas do sítio pré-histórico do Prazo. Quatro delas apresentam resultados compatíveis com os já divulgados em publicações anteriores. No conjunto, dispõe-se agora de uma série de vinte e seis datações 14C que seconsideram válidas. Estas datações permitem remeter a fase que se atribuiu ao Epipaleolítico para os finais do X/ meados do IX milénio cal BC; o Mesolítico mais antigo para o terceiro quartel do VIII milénio cal BC; o Mesolítico final para o período compreendido entre o segundo quartel do VII milénio cal BCe os meados do VI milénio cal BC; e o Neolítico Antigo para o intervalo balizado entre os finais do VI milénio cal BC e um momento indeterminado posterior ao terceiro quartel do V milénio cal BC. Entre estes períodos com ocupações humanas observam-se intervalos temporais para os quais não existem datações absolutas. Sugere-se que este facto possa estar relacionado com as dinâmicas sedimentares do local no decurso do Holocénico e não necessariamente com um padrão de povoamento caracterizado pela descontinuidade. New radiocarbon dating for the Holocene occupations of the prehistoric site of Prazo (Freixo de Numão, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, Northern Portugal) - Recently, five new radiocarbon dates for the Holocene occupations of the prehistoric site of Prazo were obtained. Four of them show results that are consistent with those previously published. At the moment, there are twenty-six 14C dates that are considered to be valid. These dates assign the supposed Epipalaeolithic to the end of the 10th/ middle of the 9th millennium cal BC; the earliest Mesolithic to the third quarter of the 8th millennium cal BC; the late Mesolithic to the interval between the second quarter of the 7th millennium cal BC and the middle of the 6th millennium cal BC; and the early Neolithic to the interval between the end of the 6th millennium cal BC and an undetermined moment after the third quarter of the 5th millennium cal BC. Among these periods with human occupation there are intervals for which there is no absolute dating. It is suggested that this may be related to the sedimentary dynamics of the site during the Holocene and not necessarily to a settlement pattern characterized by discontinuity.

A COLLECTION OF FIBER SANDALS FROM LAST SUPPER CAVE, NEVADA, AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR CAVE AND ROCKSHELTER ABANDONMENT DURING THE MIDDLE HOLOCENE

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron P. Ollivier ◽  
Geoffrey M. Smith ◽  
Pat Barker
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Middle Holocene ◽  
Last Supper ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Technological Analysis

Last Supper Cave, located in northwestern Nevada, was excavated in the 1960s and 1970s. It contained a rich record of human occupation spanning the Holocene, but many artifacts from the site, including a large basketry collection, remain unstudied. We report the results of our technological analysis and radiocarbon dating of 14 fiber sandals from Last Supper Cave, which include examples of Fort Rock, Multiple Warp, and Spiral Weft types found at other sites in the northwestern Great Basin. Radiocarbon dates on the sandals correspond well with previous dates from Last Supper Cave and suggest that it was visited episodically for over 10 millennia; however, when considered together with the growing list of dates from the site, the sandal dates suggest that Last Supper Cave saw a prolonged hiatus in occupation during the Middle Holocene—a pattern common at other sandal-bearing sites in the northwestern Great Basin.

scholarly journals Freiberg Radiocarbon Measurements I

Radiocarbon ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-45
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Burkhardt ◽  
Hajo Stechemesser ◽  
Dietrich Mania
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Third ◽  
Age Determinations

This list reports the first age determinations carried out by the Freiberg Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory. The preparation of samples and radiocarbon dates were done by the first two authors, who constructed the apparatus; sample descriptions and interpretations of dates were made by the third author.

The Neolithic transition and European population history

Antiquity ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (301) ◽  
pp. 708-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Crombé ◽  
Mark Van Strydonck
Keyword(s):  
World Wide ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
European Population ◽  
Population History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Neolithic Transition ◽  
Regional Approach ◽  
Absolute Dating

In volume 295 of Antiquity M. Gkiasta et al. (2003) discussed the results of two sets of analysis carried out on a “new” database of radiocarbon dates: one for the whole of Europe examining the spread of the Neolithic, and one regional approach looking at the relation between Mesolithic and Neolithic dates. Although we are convinced of the potential of both approaches, we do have some major comments on the methodology.First of all the analyses were conducted on a highly incomplete database. As the authors state on their p. 48, the analysed database currently includes over 2600 samples. Many of them, however, had already been collated in Gob’s Atlas of 14C dates (1990). Although the authors have included new dates, we do not believe that this has been done very systematically. For the Belgian territory, for example, virtually all the dates used in the article were those published by Gob – 16 Mesolithic dates and 30 Neolithic dates. The authors justify this by referring to the bad state of publication and public availability of radiocarbon dates in Europe. This certainly does not hold for the Belgian territory. In the last decade over a hundred new Mesolithic and Neolithic dates have been produced, the majority published in journals available world-wide such as Radiocarbon (Van Strydonck et al. 1995; 2001a), Antiquity (Crombé et al. 2002), Archaeometry (Cauwe et al. 2002) proceedings of the international congresses such as 14C and archaeology (Crombé et al. 1999) and The Mesolithic in Europe (Crombé 1999), and the IRPA- datelists (Van Strydonck et al. 2001b; Van Strydonck et al. 2002). The authors assert that these “shortcomings” to the database probably do not affect their conclusions. This is a rash and provocative statement, which minimises all recent progress in absolute dating of the European Mesolithic and Neolithic. We believe that for the Belgian situation a hundred new dates can make a difference. In recent years, for example, these new dates have allowed a thorough revision of Mesolithic chronology (Crombé 1999; Van Strydonck et al. 2001a) and a refinement of the (early) Neolithic chronology (Jadin & Cahen 2003). This will certainly also be the case for the other study-areas in Europe.

scholarly journals The Neolithic Site of Serra Cicora: Results of the AMS Radiocarbon Dating

Radiocarbon ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Quarta ◽  
M D'Elia ◽  
E Ingravallo ◽  
I Tiberi ◽  
L Calcagnile
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Neolithic Site ◽  
New Information ◽  
Definition Of

Bone and charcoal samples from the Neolithic site of Serra Cicora in the Salento Peninsula (southern Italy) have been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Measurements appear to support other archaeological evidence and have shown that 2 distinct phases of human occupation of the site can be identified: the first occupation in the Early Neolithic and a second occupation in the Middle-Late Neolithic. The results provide new information and are a fundamental contribution to the definition of the absolute chronology of the Middle-Late Neolithic in this part of Europe.

Excavations at a Neolithic Enclosure at Lower Luggy, near Welshpool, Powys, Wales

2006 ◽  
Vol 72 ◽  
pp. 163-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex Gibson ◽  
Philippa Bradley ◽  
Robert Francis ◽  
Belinda Hill ◽  
Alex Higton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Gate Structure ◽  
Close Proximity ◽  
Absolute Dating

Excavation at a cropmark enclosure in the Upper Severn Valley was undertaken to try and obtain material from which to provide relative and absolute dating for the site. Lying within an area rich in Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeology and in close proximity to a proven long barrow, the conventional later prehistoric date postulated for the enclosure was questioned. Excavation proved the site to have been a ditched enclosure with internal bank and a possible gate structure. Post-pits ran inside the bank. Finds were few but radiocarbon dates from the floor of the ditch proved the early Neolithic credentials of the monument which seemed to have continued in use for at least some 500 years.

scholarly journals The origins of agriculture in Iberia: a computational model

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Pardo Gordó ◽  
Joan Bernabeu Aubán ◽  
Oreto García Puchol ◽  
Michael Barton ◽  
Sean M. Bergin
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
Computational Model ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Origins Of Agriculture ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Radiocarbon Data ◽  
Alternative Hypotheses ◽  
Modelling Environment ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Late Mesolithic

Here we discuss the importance of using the rich and growing database of high-precision, audited radiocarbon dates for high-resolution bottom-up modelling to focus on problems concerning the spread of the Neolithic in the Iberia. We also compare the spread of the Late Mesolithic (so-called Geometric) and the Early Neolithic using our modelling environment. Our results suggest that the source of radiocarbon data used to evaluate alternative hypotheses plays an important role in the results and open up new lines of research for the future.

scholarly journals Mountains, Herds and Crops: Notes on New Evidence from the Early Neolithic in the Southern Central Pyrenees

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1015-1034
Author(s):  
Ermengol Gassiot-Ballbè ◽  
Niccolò Mazzucco ◽  
Sara Díaz-Bonilla ◽  
Laura Obea-Gómez ◽  
Javier Rey-Lanaspa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Settlement Pattern ◽  
Mountainous Areas ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Valley Bottom ◽  
Rock Shelter ◽  
Southern Central ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Late Mesolithic ◽  
Central Pyrenees

Abstract After years of intense fieldwork, our knowledge about the Neolithisation of the Pyrenees has considerably increased. In the southern central Pyrenees, some previously unknown Neolithic sites have been discovered at subalpine and alpine altitudes (1,000–1,500 m a.s.l.). One of them is Cueva Lóbrica, 1,170 m a.s.l., which has an occupation phase with impressed pottery dated ca. 5400 cal BCE. Another is Coro Trasito, 1,558 m a.s.l., a large rock shelter that preserves evidence of continuous occupations in the Early Neolithic, 5300–4600 cal BCE. Evidence of human occupation at higher altitudes has also been documented. In the Axial Pyrenees, at the Obagues de Ratera rock shelter, 2,345 m a.s.l., an occupation has been dated to around 5730–5600 cal BCE. At Cova del Sardo, in the Sant Nicolau Valley, at 1,780 m a.s.l., a series of occupations have been excavated, dated to ca. 5600–4500 cal BCE. These sites allow us to discuss patterns of occupation of the mountainous areas between the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic. Recent data suggest that the last hunter–gatherer occupied all altitudinal stages of the Pyrenees, both in the outer and inner ranges. A change in the settlement pattern seems to have occurred in the Early Neolithic, which consisted of a concentration of occupations in the valley bottom and mid-slopes, in biotopes favourable to both herding and agriculture.

scholarly journals Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated periods and phases

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 34-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agathe Reingruber ◽  
Giorgos Toufexis ◽  
Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika ◽  
Michalis Anetakis ◽  
Yannis Maniatis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The Bronze Age

Thessaly in Central Greece is famous for settlement mounds (magoules) that were already partly formed in the Early Neolithic period. Some of these long-lived sites grew to many metres in height during the subsequent Middle, Late and Final Neolithic periods, and were also in­habited in the Bronze Age. Such magoules served as the backbone for defining relative chronolo­gical schemes. However, their absolute dating is still a topic of debate: due to a lack of well-defined se­quences, different chronological schemes have been proposed. New radiocarbon dates obtained in the last few years allow a better understanding of the duration not only of the main Neolithic pe­riods, but also of the different phases and sub-phases.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon Dates Constrain the Timing of Environmental and Cultural Shifts in the Holocene Strata of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

Radiocarbon ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 1067-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Ecker ◽  
James Brink ◽  
Michael Chazan ◽  
Liora Kolska Horwitz ◽  
Julia A Lee-Thorp
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Bayesian Model ◽  
Later Stone Age ◽  
Human Occupation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
The Holocene ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Climate Shifts ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
Age Estimates

AbstractWonderwerk Cave has yielded one of the longest and most complete Holocene Later Stone Age (LSA) records for the arid interior of South Africa. This paper presents the results of a new radiocarbon dating program for Excavation 1 that is explored within a Bayesian model of all existing Wonderwerk Cave radiocarbon (14C) dates for the Holocene. The proposed model, usingPhaseswithin an OxCalSequencemodel, provides robust age estimates for changes in the technological and paleoenvironmental record at the site. The more precise dates allow a comparison of the timing of climate shifts across the interior of southern Africa and begin to allow us to identify whether hiatuses in human occupation, or cultural shifts, are synchronous across broader areas of the subcontinent, or not.

scholarly journals Neolithic Thessaly: radiocarbon dated periods and phases

10.4312/dp.3 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Agathe Reingruber ◽  
Giorgos Toufexis ◽  
Nina Kyparissi-Apostolika ◽  
Michalis Anetakis ◽  
Yannis Maniatis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Central Greece ◽  
Absolute Dating ◽  
The Bronze Age

Thessaly in Central Greece is famous for settlement mounds (magoules) that were already partly formed in the Early Neolithic period. Some of these long-lived sites grew to many metres in height during the subsequent Middle, Late and Final Neolithic periods, and were also in­habited in the Bronze Age. Such magoules served as the backbone for defining relative chronolo­gical schemes. However, their absolute dating is still a topic of debate: due to a lack of well-defined se­quences, different chronological schemes have been proposed. New radiocarbon dates obtained in the last few years allow a better understanding of the duration not only of the main Neolithic pe­riods, but also of the different phases and sub-phases.

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