Radiocarbon dates for the late Middle Palaeolithic at Pech de l'Azé IV,France |
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| Authors: | Shannon P McPherron Sahra Talamo Paul Goldberg Laura Niven Dennis Sandgathe Michael P Richards Daniel Richter Alain Turq Harold L Dibble |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, DeutscherPlatz 6, Leipzig 04103, Germany;2. Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans (ROCEEH), Heidelberg Academy of Science and Humanities, Rümelinstr. 23, 72070 Tübingen, Germany;3. Department of Archaeology, Boston University, USA;4. Department of Archaeology and Human Evolution Studies Program, Simon Fraser University, Canada;5. Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, 6303 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z1;6. Lehrstuhl Geomorphologie, University of Bayreuth, Germany;g Musée National de Préhistoire, 24200 Les Eyzies, France;h Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA;i Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Box 874101, Tempe, AZ 85282-4101, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper reports a series of radiocarbon dates on bone samples coming from the Mousterian of Acheulian Tradition (MTA) Layer 3 at the top of the Pech de l'Azé IV (Pech IV, France) Middle Palaeolithic sequence. All of these samples showed evidence of human impact, and they were prepared using current pre-treatment techniques to remove or identify contamination. The results indicate that the MTA at Pech IV started prior to the current limit of radiocarbon calibration (circa 50 ka BP) and ended by 45 ka cal. BP. These dates are supported by additional TL and ESR dates from the sequence, confirm previously suggested correlations between Pech I and IV, and generally fit within the known age range for the MTA. The oldest dates reported here may also lend support to still older TL dates for the MTA that taken together suggest that the MTA extended from late MIS 4 or early OIS 3 through to the end of the Middle Palaeolithic in southwest France. |
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| Keywords: | AMS dating Mousterian MTA Pech de l'Azé IV |
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