DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2014.05.014
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84937969671
论文题名: Tephra studies and the reconstruction of Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic cultural trajectories
作者: d'Errico F. ; Banks W.E.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2015
卷: 118 起始页码: 182
结束页码: 193
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Aurignacian
; Campanian Ignimbrite
; Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition
; Tephra studies
; Uluzzian
Scopus关键词: Stratigraphy
; Aurignacian
; Campanian Ignimbrite
; Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition
; Tephra studies
; Uluzzian
; Population statistics
英文摘要: This study describes an approach which combines tephra records with archaeological and contextual data in order to propose best fit scenarios for past cultural changes and population events. With this goal in mind, we critically examine the environmental, archaeological, anthropological, and chronometric records of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic (MUP) Transition (45-35 ka) in Europe and identify a number of shortcomings that make it difficult to correlate and interpret current evidence with respect to historical processes. The utility and limitations of tephra records are highlighted and an heuristic strategy, designed to merge evidence from tephra and other proxies, is described. Such a strategy is used to explore the stratigraphic and chronological relationship between the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) eruption and the cultural changes that occurred during the MUP Transition in Southern Europe. Uncertainties pertaining to the timing of this volcanic event are discussed before summarizing the stratigraphic and cultural sequences of the eleven archaeological sites (Haua Fteah, Kozarnica, Franchthi Cave, Klissoura, Golema Pesht, Cavallo, Serino, Castelcivita, Tabula Traiana, Temnata, Kostenki 14) where the CI tephra has been reliably identified, along with three sites (Uluzzo, Uluzzo C, Bernardini) where such an identification remains tentative. We conclude that if one discards as inconclusive the recent attribution of the Uluzzian to modern humans, the best fit historical scenario that stems from a critical reading of the evidence identifies the Uluzzian as the result of in-situ cultural evolution of late Mousterian populations in this region of Southern Europe. Such evolution, which entails the independent development of cultural innovations typically found in subsequent cultures of the Upper Paleolithic, would have been truncated, before the CI event, by the arrival of modern or Neanderthal-modern hybrid populations bearing the Proto-Aurignacian material culture. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/60057
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作者单位: CNRS, UMR 5199-PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Batiment B18, Allee Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, CS 50023, Pessac Cedex, France; Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion, University of Bergen, Øysteinsgate 3, Bergen, Norway; Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd, Dyche Hall, Lawrence, KS, United States
Recommended Citation:
d'Errico F.,Banks W.E.. Tephra studies and the reconstruction of Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic cultural trajectories[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2015-01-01,118