Journal
QUATERNARY RESEARCH
Volume 75, Issue 3, Pages 670-682Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2011.02.001
Keywords
Middle Son Valley; South Asia; Optically stimulated luminescence; Late Pleistocene; Lithic technology; Late Acheulean; Middle Palaeolithic; Hominin replacement
Funding
- Leverhulme Trust
- British Academy
- Australian Research Council [DP0880675]
- University of Wollongong
- Archaeological Survey of India
- American Institute for Indian Studies
- Australian Research Council [DP0880675] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
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Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence dating was applied to Late Quaternary sediments at two sites in the Middle Son Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India. Designated Bamburi 1 and Patpara, these sites contain Late Acheulean stone tool assemblages, which we associate with non-modern hominins. Age determinations of 140-120 ka place the formation of these sites at around the Marine Oxygen Isotope Stage 6-5 transition, placing them among the youngest Acheulean sites in the world. We present here the geochronology and sedimentological setting of these sites, and consider potential implications of Late Pleistocene archaic habitation in north-central India for the initial dispersal of modern humans across South Asia. (C) 2011 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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