U-Series and ESR Dating of Teeth from Acheulian and Mousterian Levels at La Micoque (Dordogne, France)

Falguères, Christophe; Bahain, Jean‐Jacques; Saleki, Hassane

doi:10.1006/jasc.1996.0137

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“…The combined U-series and ESR data permit us to determine, for each dental tissue, a U-uptake parameter p (Grü n et al, 1988). This parameter describes more accurately the geochemical history of the tooth (Grü n and McDermott, 1994;Falguè res et al, 1997). However, this procedure does not apply to situations for which uranium has been leached.…”

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Age of the final Middle Palaeolithic and Uluzzian levels at Fumane Cave, Northern Italy, using 14C, ESR, 234U/230Th and thermoluminescence methods

Peresani

Cremaschi

Ferraro

et al. 2008

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Age of the final Middle Palaeolithic and Uluzzian levels at Fumane Cave, Northern Italy, using 14C, ESR, 234U/230Th and thermoluminescence methods

Peresani

Cremaschi

Ferraro

et al. 2008

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Different models of U-incorporation kinetics, such as early uptake and linear uptake (10,37), were first proposed to calculate ESR ages. The ESR-US approach taking into account both ESR and US data (radioelement contents, isotopic ratios, paleodoses, external γ-dose rate) allows a better description of uranium incorporation into the different dental tissues, as well as the determination of a single age for each sample, through the calculation of an uptake parameter p for each tissue (38). The application of this combined approach to materials from archeological and paleontological contexts now allows us to obtain reliable geochronological data for the entire Middle Pleistocene (21,39).…”

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Radiometric dating of the type-site for Homo heidelbergensis at Mauer, Germany

Wagner

Krbetschek

Degering³

et al. 2010

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The Mauer mandible, holotype of Homo heidelbergensis, was found in 1907 in fluvial sands deposited by the Neckar River 10 km southeast of Heidelberg, Germany. The fossil is an important key to understanding early human occupation of Europe north of the Alps. Given the associated mammal fauna and the geological context, the find layer has been placed in the early Middle Pleistocene, but confirmatory chronometric evidence has hitherto been missing. Here we show that two independent techniques, the combined electron spin resonance/U-series method used with mammal teeth and infrared radiofluorescence applied to sand grains, date the type-site of Homo heidelbergensis at Mauer to 609 ± 40 ka. This result demonstrates that the mandible is the oldest hominin fossil reported to date from central and northern Europe and raises questions concerning the phyletic relationship of Homo heidelbergensis to more ancient populations documented from southern Europe and in Africa. We address the paleoanthropological significance of the Mauer jaw in light of this dating evidence.geochronology | paleoanthropology | physical dating | Quaternary

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“…(Rosendahl 2011: 133). Unfortunately, the destroyed upper levels at La Micoque still remain undated (Falguères et al 1997;Rosendahl 2004 Depaepe (2014) separates the Central and Eastern European "Micoquian" into two groups. A first phase (Keilmessergruppen) between 60 and 40 ka BP and a subsequent second phase (Blattspitzengruppen).…”

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A Late Middle Palaeolithic assemblage containing Levallois and bifacial objects from Saône-et-Loire, France: GH 3 at Grotte de la Verpillière II à Germolles

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2016

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The site of Grotte de la Verpillière II, a rock shelter and corresponding cave tunnel, is situated in a cliff face of an Oxfordian massive, around 10 km West of Chalon-sur-Saône in Eastern France. The excavation at this site has recovered Middle Palaeolithic assemblages in three stratified sedimentological units. The richest of these assemblages derives from Geological Horizon (GH) 3 and is discussed here. It is preliminarily attributed to a Late Middle Palaeolithic context of OIS 3 to 4 using radiometric-dating techniques.The assemblage combines Levallois reduction, bifacial objects and diverse 'opportunistic' reduction strategies. The Levallois reduction shows a high level of raw-material economy in the use of raw pieces and blanks whose morphology is close to the shape of desired configured cores. Other reduction strategies show a wider range of approaches to blank production. Bifacial objects include but are not limited to Keilmesser with tranchet blows. The condition of objects from GH 3 range from unused raw pieces, tested raw pieces, configured and exhausted cores, correction and central flakes, as well as some heated objects, frost shards, and debris. The majority of raw materials derive from sources nearby, but were clearly transported to the site. Only some pieces show evidence for transport of up to 100 km from source to site. The presence of specific reduction strategies on bifacial objects and the existence of tranchet-blow modification provide support for the attribution of the assemblage to the Keilmessergruppen assemblages from Central Europe.

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U-Series and ESR Dating of Teeth from Acheulian and Mousterian Levels at La Micoque (Dordogne, France)

Cited by 47 publications

References 16 publications

Age of the final Middle Palaeolithic and Uluzzian levels at Fumane Cave, Northern Italy, using 14C, ESR, 234U/230Th and thermoluminescence methods

Age of the final Middle Palaeolithic and Uluzzian levels at Fumane Cave, Northern Italy, using 14C, ESR, 234U/230Th and thermoluminescence methods

Radiometric dating of the type-site for Homo heidelbergensis at Mauer, Germany

A Late Middle Palaeolithic assemblage containing Levallois and bifacial objects from Saône-et-Loire, France: GH 3 at Grotte de la Verpillière II à Germolles

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