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Dishing The Dirt: Sediments Reveal A Famous Early Human Cave Site Was Also Home To Hyenas And Wolves, Mike W. Morley, Paul Goldberg, Richard G. Roberts
Dishing The Dirt: Sediments Reveal A Famous Early Human Cave Site Was Also Home To Hyenas And Wolves, Mike W. Morley, Paul Goldberg, Richard G. Roberts
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
Denisova Cave in Siberia's Altai Mountains is one of the world's most important archaeological sites. It is famous for preserving evidence of three early human groups: Neanderthals, early Homo sapiens, and a third group known as the Denisovans. Fossil bones, stone tools and ancient DNA gathered from the cave have told a story that is extremely significant for understanding the early chapters of human evolution in Asia, going back 300,000 years. But our new analysis of the cave's dirt floor reveals that it was also frequented by hyenas, wolves, and even bears for much of its history.
Optical Dating Of Sediment Samples From Chagyrskaya Cave, Richard G. Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li
Optical Dating Of Sediment Samples From Chagyrskaya Cave, Richard G. Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
The existing chronology for the Chagyrskaya Cave is based on 19 radiocarbon (14C) age determinations (Derevianko et al., 2013; Rudaya et al., 2017) made on bison bones from stratigraphic layers 5 (n = 2) and 6 (n = 17). Several of the bones from layer 6 have cut marks consistent with those made by stone tools. Except for the uppermost sample from layer 5 (which has a calendar-year 14C age of 37,670–38,690 cal. BP at the 95 % confidence interval), all other age estimates fell at or beyond the reliable dating limit for these materials (Wood, 2015) …
Cave Art, Art And Geometric Morphometrics: Shape Changes And The Babirusa Of Sulawesi, Susan Hayes, Gerrit D. Van Den Bergh
Cave Art, Art And Geometric Morphometrics: Shape Changes And The Babirusa Of Sulawesi, Susan Hayes, Gerrit D. Van Den Bergh
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
There is considerable evidence that the babirusa of Sulawesi and its neighbouring islands has long attracted human attention. This is probably in part due to the male babirusa appearing as a bizarre compound of two familiar ungulates (babi = 'pig', rusa = 'deer') in that the male's upper canines resemble deer antlers. In October 2014, Aubert et al. announced in Nature that a cave art depiction in Leang Timpuseng, Maros, interpreted by the authors to depict a female babirusa, was created at least 35,400 years ago and is therefore of comparable antiquity to the oldest recorded Late Pleistocene cave art …
A Late Quaternary Vertebrate Deposit In Kudjal Yolgah Cave, South-Western Australia: Refining Regional Late Pleistocene Extinctions, Nathan Jankowski, Grant A. Gully, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, Gavin J. Prideaux
A Late Quaternary Vertebrate Deposit In Kudjal Yolgah Cave, South-Western Australia: Refining Regional Late Pleistocene Extinctions, Nathan Jankowski, Grant A. Gully, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard G. Roberts, Gavin J. Prideaux
Faculty of Science, Medicine and Health - Papers: Part B
We describe the stratigraphy and chronology of Kudjal Yolgah Cave in south-western Australia, a late Quaternary deposit pre- and post-dating regional human arrival and preserving fossils of extinct and extant fauna. Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating shows that seven superposed units were deposited over the past 80 ka. Remains of 16 mammal species have been found at the site, all of them represented in Unit 7, for which seven OSL ages indicate accumulation between 80 and 41 ka. Single-grain OSL equivalent dose distribution patterns show no evidence of reworking of older or younger sediments into Unit 7, but late …