Universität zu Köln

Schmidt, Christoph ORCID: 0000-0002-2309-3209, Sitlivy, Valery, Anghelinu, Mircea ORCID: 0000-0002-0317-4415, Chabai, Victor, Kels, Holger, Uthmeier, Thorsten ORCID: 0000-0003-1265-061X, Hauck, Thomas, Baltean, Ion, Hilgers, Alexandra, Richter, Juergen and Radtke, Ulrich (2013). First chronometric dates (TL and OSL) for the Aurignacian open-air site of Romanesti-Dumbravita I, Romania. J. Archaeol. Sci., 40 (10). S. 3740 - 3754. LONDON: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1095-9238

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Abstract

Currently, absolute dates for the emergence of the Early Upper Paleolithic and the timing of the earliest dispersal of anatomically modern humans (AMH) into Europe are sparse. This is especially true for regions adjoining the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Europe with its dense clusters of sites along the Austrian and German Danube Valley. This article makes a first step toward filling this gap and, for the first time, presents absolute ages for the open-air site of Romanesti-Dumbravita I (Banat, SW Romania) located close to the Oase Cave where some of the oldest AMH fossils were found. A set of heated artefacts recently excavated from the Aurignacian layer GH3 was dated by thermoluminescence (TL) and gives early chronometric dates for this technocomplex in Romania. The luminescence behavior of artefact samples required the use of different multiple- and single-aliquot measurement protocols to obtain reliable age information. In addition, analyses of glow curves and the performance during regenerative-dose measurements allowed us to distinguish two types of samples. Since one group is characterized by poor dose reproducibility, only samples showing reliable luminescence behavior were considered for final age interpretations. As a result, we could determine that the last heating of artefacts from GH3 happened most likely between similar to 39 ka (single-aliquot age estimate) and similar to 45 ka (multiple-aliquot age estimate) ago, with a weighted average age of the GH3 finds of 40.6 +/- 1.5 ka (including all data). These dates were confirmed by OSL dating of sediments of the find layer. Such an early age fits well to technological and typological features, which place the dated lithic assemblage at the very beginning of the development of the Aurignacian technocomplex usually seen as a proxy for the earliest wide spread presence of AMH in Europe. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schmidt, Christoph UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2309-3209 UNSPECIFIED Sitlivy, Valery UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Anghelinu, Mircea UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0317-4415 UNSPECIFIED Chabai, Victor UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kels, Holger UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Uthmeier, Thorsten UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1265-061X UNSPECIFIED Hauck, Thomas UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Baltean, Ion UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hilgers, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Richter, Juergen UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Radtke, Ulrich UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-475563
DOI:	10.1016/j.jas.2013.04.003
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Archaeol. Sci.
Volume:	40
Number:	10
Page Range:	S. 3740 - 3754
Date:	2013
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	1095-9238
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MODERN HUMANS; QUARTZ; CHRONOLOGY; SINGLE; MIDDLE; CONTEXT; AGE; TECHNOLOGY; REVOLUTION; DISPERSAL Multiple languages Anthropology; Archaeology; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/47556