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JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
卷 37, 期 4, 页码 758-768出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.11.006
关键词
Radiocarbon dating; Protoaurignacian; Early Aurignacian; Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition; Isturitz; Southern France
资金
- National Science Foundation [0010835000]
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. [7386]
- Ministry of Culture of France (DRAC-Aquitaine)
- Conseil General des Pyrenees-Atlantiques
- SARL Grottes d'Isturitz et d'Oxocelhaya
- Societe d'Etudes Basques Eusko Ikaskuntza
- Laboratoire TRACES-UMR, Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail [6508]
- Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship [8020]
- Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
This paper presents new AMS radiocarbon dating results of six ungulate bones from the current excavation of Isturitz Cave, France, layer C 4c4. The assemblage from this layer exhibits a suite of traits closely aligned with the Early Aurignacian, but with some aspects that bear strong similarities with the Protoaurignacian, with possible in situ technological transformation. Accurate and precise dating of the late Middle Palaeolithic and the early Upper Palaeolithic periods is critical to our understanding of the possible relationship between final Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe. As such, a rigorous set of sample selection and evaluation protocols was developed and used in this research. Among these, only cutmarked bones were selected and a total of 31 targets were made, giving a weighted average of 37,180 +/- 420 BP for this assemblage and providing a terminus ante quem for the ornaments, decorated artefact and amber pendants beneath it. The implications and importance of these results to debates concerning the chronological relationship between the Chatelperronian, Protoaurignacian and Early Aurignacian and associated debates regarding hominin dispersal, interaction and the timing of technical and cultural innovations are discussed. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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