The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)

被引：105

作者：

Douka, Katerina ^{[1
]}

Jacobs, Zenobia ^{[2
]}

Lane, Christine ^{[1
]}

Gruen, Rainer ^{[3
]}

Farr, Lucy ^{[4
]}

Hunt, Chris ^{[5
]}

Inglis, Robyn H. ^{[6
]}

Reynolds, Tim ^{[7
]}

Albert, Paul ^{[8
]}

Aubert, Maxime ^{[2
]}

Cullen, Victoria ^{[1
]}

Hill, Evan ^{[5
]}

Kinsley, Leslie ^{[3
]}

Roberts, Richard G. ^{[2
]}

Tomlinson, Emma L. ^{[8
,9
]}

Wulf, Sabine ^{[10
]}

Barker, Graeme ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Oxford, Res Lab Archaeol & Hist Art, Oxford OX1 3QY, England

[2] Univ Wollongong, Sch Earth & Environm Sci, Ctr Archaeol Sci, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

[3] Australian Natl Univ, Res Sch Earth Sci, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia

[4] Univ Cambridge, McDonald Inst Archaeol Res, Cambridge CB2 3ER, England

[5] Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Geog Archaeol & Palaeoecol, Belfast BT7 1NN, Antrim, North Ireland

[6] Univ York, Dept Archaeol, York YO1 7EP, N Yorkshire, England

[7] Univ London, Birkbeck Coll, Dept Hist Class & Archaeol, London WC1B 5DQ, England

[8] Royal Holloway Univ London, Dept Earth Sci, Egham TW20 0EX, Surrey, England

[9] Univ Dublin Trinity Coll, Dept Geol, Dublin 2, Ireland

[10] GFZ German Res Ctr Geosci, Sect Climate Dynam & Landscape Evolut 5 2, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany

来源：

JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION | 2014年 / 66卷

基金：

英国艺术与人文研究理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 英国自然环境研究理事会; 欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

North Africa; Hominin dispersals; Neolithisation; Dating; SITE FORMATION PROCESSES; EARLY-MODERN HUMANS; MIDDLE STONE-AGE; LATE PLEISTOCENE; SINGLE-GRAIN; HOLOCENE SEDIMENTS; EXPLOSIVE ACTIVITY; EARLIEST EVIDENCE; SOUTHERN CAPE; BLOMBOS CAVE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.10.001

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

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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页数：25

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