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Archaeology: Progress And Pitfalls In Radiocarbon Dating, Christian Turney, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs
Archaeology: Progress And Pitfalls In Radiocarbon Dating, Christian Turney, Richard Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs
Richard G Roberts
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Human History Written In Stone And Blood, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard Roberts
Human History Written In Stone And Blood, Zenobia Jacobs, Richard Roberts
Richard G Roberts
Even by archaeological standards, Blombos Cave is a modestly sized shelter. Yet artifacts recovered from just 13 cubic meters of deposit inside transformed our understanding of when our species developed behavioral attributes we associate with “modern” humans. From this cramped hole in a sandstone cliff on the Southern Cape coast of South Africa, Christopher Henshilwood and his colleagues unearthed evidence of symbolic expression, in the form of abstract designs (carved ochre bars) and personal ornaments (shell beads) at least 70,000 years old. That is more than 35,000 years before anything comparable emerged in Europe.
On The Reliability Of Age Estimates For Human Remains At Lake Mungo, Richard Gillespie, Richard Roberts
On The Reliability Of Age Estimates For Human Remains At Lake Mungo, Richard Gillespie, Richard Roberts
Richard G Roberts
The lunettes that fringe the ancient shorelines of Lake Mungo, in the Willandra Lakes region of southeastern Australia, have been a source of sustained archaeological and environmental interest since 1968, when Jim Bowler found the first of many recently exposed human burials. Most attention has been directed toward the Mungo 1 and Mungo 3 burials, excavated from the southern end of the ‘‘Walls of China’’ lunette (Bowler et al., 1970, 1972; Bowler & Thorne, 1976). More than 200 radiocarbon (14C) and thermoluminescence (TL) age estimates have since been obtained from a wide range of materials associated with human occupation and …