DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.02.029
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84977962817
论文题名: First evidence of a Late Upper Palaeolithic human presence in Ireland
作者: Dowd M. ; Carden R.F.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2016
卷: 139 起始页码: 158
结束页码: 163
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Archaeology
; Final Palaeolithic
; Human colonisation
; Ireland
; Megafauna
; Radiocarbon dating
; Zooarchaeology
Scopus关键词: Bone
; Archaeology
; Colonisation
; Final Palaeolithic
; Ireland
; Megafauna
; Radiocarbon dating
; Zooarchaeology
; Animals
; Animalia
; Ursus arctos
英文摘要: The colonisation of North West Europe by humans and fauna following the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) has been the subject of considerable discussion in recent decades and within multiple disciplines. Here we present new evidence that pushes back the date of human footfall in Ireland by up to 2500 cal BP to the Upper Palaeolithic. An assemblage of animal bones recovered from a cave in the west of Ireland during antiquarian excavations in 1903 included a butchered brown bear bone (patella) which was recently subjected to two independent radiocarbon dating processes; the resultant dates were in agreement: 12,810-12,590 cal BP and 12,810-12,685 cal BP. This find rewrites the antiquity of human occupation of Ireland and challenges the traditional paradigm that certain biota may have naturally colonised the island prior to human arrival. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/59616
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作者单位: School of Science, Institute of Technology Sligo, Sligo, Ireland; Natural History Division, National Museum of Ireland, Merrion Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
Recommended Citation:
Dowd M.,Carden R.F.. First evidence of a Late Upper Palaeolithic human presence in Ireland[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2016-01-01,139