期刊
JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
卷 66, 期 -, 页码 39-63出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.10.001
关键词
North Africa; Hominin dispersals; Neolithisation; Dating
资金
- European Research Council [230421]
- Society for Libyan Studies
- Leakey Foundation
- Natural Environment Research Council (NERC Radiocarbon Facility)
- Leverhulme Trust
- UK Natural Environment Research Council consortium RESET [NE/E015670/1, NE/E015905/1]
- Australian Research Council [DP1092843, DP0666084]
- UK Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Magdalene College, Cambridge
- European Research Council (ERC) [230421] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/E015905/1, NRCF010002, NE/E015670/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- NERC [NE/E015670/1, NRCF010002, NE/E015905/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The 1950s excavations by Charles McBurney in the Haua Fteah, a large karstic cave on the coast of northeast Libya, revealed a deep sequence of human occupation. Most subsequent research on North African prehistory refers to his discoveries and interpretations, but the chronology of its archaeological and geological sequences has been based on very early age determinations. This paper reports on the initial results of a comprehensive multi-method dating program undertaken as part of new work at the site, involving radiocarbon dating of charcoal, land snails and marine shell, cryptotephra investigations, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of sediments, and electron spin resonance (ESR) dating of tooth enamel. The dating samples were collected from the newly exposed and cleaned faces of the upper 7.5 m of the similar to 14.0 m-deep McBurney trench, which contain six of the seven major cultural phases that he identified. Despite problems of sediment transport and reworking, using a Bayesian statistical model the new dating program establishes a robust framework for the five major lithostratigraphic units identified in the stratigraphic succession, and for the major cultural units. The age of two anatomically modern human mandibles found by McBurney in Layer XXXIII near the base of his Levalloiso-Mousterian phase can now be estimated to between 73 and 65 ka (thousands of years ago) at the 95.4% confidence level, within Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4. McBurney's Layer XXV, associated with Upper Palaeolithic Dabban blade industries, has a clear stratigraphic relationship with Campanian Ignimbrite tephra. Microlithic Oranian technologies developed following the climax of the Last Glacial Maximum and the more microlithic Capsian in the Younger Dryas. Neolithic pottery and perhaps domestic livestock were used in the cave from the mid Holocene but there is no certain evidence for plant cultivation until the Graeco-Roman period. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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