Multi-method (TL and OSL), multi-material (quartz and flint) dating of the Mousterian site of Roc de Marsal (Dordogne, France): correlating Neanderthal occupations with the climatic variability of MIS 5-3
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- 作者：Guillaume Gu¨¦rin ; Emmanuel Discamps ; Christelle Lahaye ; Norbert Mercier ; Pierre Guibert ; Alain Turq ; Harold L. Dibble ; Shannon P. McPherron ; Dennis S ; gathe ; Paul Goldberg ; Mayank Jain ; Kristina Thomsen ; Maryl¨¨ne Patou-Mathis ; Jean-Christophe Castel ; Marie-C¨¦cile Soulier
- 关键词：TL ; OSL ; Middle Palaeolithic ; Climate variability ; Palaeoenvironments
- 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science
- 出版年：2012
- 出版时间：October, 2012
- 年：2012
- 卷：39
- 期：10
- 页码：3071-3084
- 全文大小：1933 K
文摘
Roc de Marsal has yielded numerous remains of Mousterian occupations, including lithics, fauna and combustion features. It was made famous by the discovery of the skeleton of a Neanderthal child. Given the need to date the sequence, TL and OSL were applied on heated flints and quartz, and OSL on unheated quartz. Chronological results combined with palaeoenvironmental data - faunal remains and micromorphological features in the sediments from the cave, pollen proxies and faunal remains from the region - allowed us to place climate variations in southwest France on a numerical time scale. Denticulate Mousterian occupations were dated to the middle of MIS?4 (65-70?ka) and Quina layers either to the very end of MIS?4 or to MIS?3. Interestingly, a faunal pattern showing a mix of red deer, roe deer and reindeer was found to have occurred during MIS?4, which was shown to be consistent with data from other similar sites in southwest France.