VALLADAS , Hélène

A selection of 37 burnt flints from Jelinek's excavations at Tabun were dated by thermoluminescence. The results indicate that the bottom of unit I (Garrod's Layer C) should be given an age of 171±17 kybp(transition from oxygen isotope stage 7 to 6) and that units XIII to II (Layers Ed to D) were deposited betweenc. 330 and 210 kybp,i.e.during...

Au Levant, quelles relations entre Néandertaliens et premiers Hommes modernes ?

The La Combette rock-shelter, located in the Luberon mountains (Southern France), is an essential local archaeological discovery. The site comprises several Palaeolithic layers suggesting multiple phases of Mousterian occupation. The sediment sequence of c. 7 m thickness indicates rapid changes in the environmental conditions, which led to an...

Dating the Early Middle Palaeolithic Laminar Industry from Djruchula Cave, Republic of Georgia

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The stratigraphic and lithic evidence at the site of Bérigoule is not sufficient for the determination of the age of two Mousterian archaeological layers. Thermoluminescence (TL) dating of heated flint from the two levels provides chronometric age estimates. The TL-ages show a high degree of variability, ranging from 54 to 90 ka for Level I and...

New excavations have been undertaken at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (DRS; South Africa) since 1999. It is one of the very few sites where Howiesons Poort and Stillbay assemblages can be collected from the same archaeological sequence. These Middle Stone Age techno-complexes are particularly interesting for their affinities with the much younger...