Ipswichian fauna of Victoria Cave and the marine palaeoclimatic record

Gascoyne, M.; Currant, A. P.; Lord, Thomas C.

doi:10.1038/294652a0

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“…Most interesting in this respect is the dating of the last interglacial hippopotamus fauna in Victoria Cave, central England. The flowstone enclosing the remains ranges in age from 135,000 ± 8000 yr at the bottom to 114,000 ± 5000 yr at the top (Gascoyne et al, 1981). These alpha spectrometry dates are less precise than TIMS determinations.…”

Section: Coral Reefs and Speleothemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Last Interglacial Climates

Kukla¹,

et al. 2002

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The last interglacial, commonly understood as an interval with climate as warm or warmer than today, is represented by marine isotope stage (MIS) 5e, which is a proxy record of low global ice volume and high sea level. It is arbitrarily dated to begin at approximately 130,000 yr B.P. and end at 116,000 yr B.P. with the onset of the early glacial unit MIS 5d. The age of the stage is determined by correlation to uranium-thorium dates of raised coral reefs. The most detailed proxy record of interglacial climate is found in the Vostok ice core where the temperature reached current levels 132,000 yr ago and continued rising for another two millennia. Approximately 127,000 yr ago the Eemian mixed forests were established in Europe. They developed through a characteristic succession of tree species, probably surviving well into the early glacial stage in southern parts of Europe.

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Section: Coral Reefs and Speleothemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Last Interglacial Climates

Kukla¹,

et al. 2002

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“…From this it appeared that humans were absent during Marine Isotope Sub-stage (MIS) 5e when hippopotamus was a part of the British fauna (Gascoyne et al, 1981;Bateman and Catt, 1996;McFarlane and Ford, 1998). Recently, the gap in human presence has been suggested to have been considerably longer, perhaps beginning as early as MIS 6 (Ashton and Lewis, 2002) and lasting for at least the remainder of MIS 5 (Currant and Jacobi, 2002).…”

Section: The Late Middle Palaeolithicmentioning

confidence: 99%

AMS radiocarbon dating of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic bone in the British Isles: improved reliability using ultrafiltration

Jacobi

Higham

Ramsey

2006

J Quaternary Science

138

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Recent research at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) has shown that ultrafiltration of gelatin from archaeological bone can, in many instances, remove low molecular weight contaminants. These can sometimes be of a different radiocarbon age and, unless removed, may severely influence results, particularly when dating bones greater than two to three half-lives of 14 C. In this study this methodology is applied to samples of Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic age from the British Isles. In many instances the results of redating invite serious reconsideration of the chronology for these periods.

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“…The ca 120 ka age (MIS 5e) of the classic Ipswichian 'hippopotamous mammalian fauna' from Victoria Cave, Kirkdale (Boylan, 1981, Gascoyne et al, 1981 located east of Westfield Grange, has been revised to 112 +-2 ka (Gilmour et al, 2007).…”

Section: Age Of the Vale Of Pickering Tillmentioning

confidence: 99%