Interpreting radiocarbon dates from the paleolithic layers of Theopetra cave in Thessaly, Greece

dc.contributor.author	Φακορέλλης, Γιώργος	el
dc.contributor.author	Καρκανάς, Παναγιώτης	el
dc.contributor.author	Higham, Thomas	en
dc.contributor.author	Ντίνου, Μαρία	el
dc.contributor.author	Brock, Fiona	en
dc.date.accessioned	2015-06-06T15:39:25Z
dc.date.available	2015-06-06T15:39:25Z
dc.date.issued	2015-06-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11400/15328
dc.rights	Αναφορά Δημιουργού-Μη Εμπορική Χρήση-Όχι Παράγωγα Έργα 3.0 Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες	*
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dc.source	https://journals.uair.arizona.edu	en
dc.subject	Κάρβουνο
dc.subject	Παλαιολιθική εποχή
dc.subject	Θεσσαλία
dc.subject	Ελλάδα
dc.title	Interpreting radiocarbon dates from the paleolithic layers of Theopetra cave in Thessaly, Greece	en
heal.type	journalArticle
heal.classification	Archaeology (URL:http://skos.um.es/unescothes/C00213)
heal.classification	Geology
heal.classification	Αρχαιολογία
heal.classification	Γεωλογία
heal.classificationURI	N/A-Archaeology (URL:http://skos.um.es/unescothes/C00213)
heal.classificationURI	http://skos.um.es/unescothes/C01676
heal.classificationURI	N/A-Αρχαιολογία
heal.classificationURI	N/A-Γεωλογία
heal.contributorName	Κυπαρίσση - Αποστολίκα, Νίνα	el
heal.identifier.secondary	DOI: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16316
heal.language	en
heal.access	campus
heal.publicationDate	2013
heal.bibliographicCitation	Facorellis, G., Karkanas, P., Higham, T., Brock, F., Ntinou, M. et al. (2013) Interpreting radiocarbon dates from the paleolithic layers of Theopetra cave in Thessaly, Greece. "Radiocarbon", 55 (2-3), p.1432-1442	en
heal.abstract	Theopetra Cave is a unique prehistoric site for Greece, as the Middle and Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods are present here, ridging the Pleistocene with the Holocene. During the more than 20 yr of excavation campaigns, charcoal samples from hearths suitable for 14C dating were collected from all anthropogenic layers, including the Paleolithic ones. Most of the samples were initially dated using the ABA chemical pretreatment protocol in the Laboratory of Archaeometry of NCSR Demokritos, reece, and the Radiocarbon Dating and Cosmogenic Isotopes Laboratory of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. The 14C results, which were not always consistent versus depth, howed that the earliest limit of human presence is ~50,000 yr BP, thus reaching the age limits of the 14C dating method. However, 10 TL-dated burnt flint specimens unearthed from the lower part of the Middle Paleolithic sequence of the cave gave ages ranging between ~110 and 135 kyr ago. hese results are in disagreement with the 14C dates, as they support a much later date for these layers. n order to clarify the situation further, charcoal samples originating from hearths were conventionally dated in the Laboratory of Archaeometry of NCSR Demokritos using the ABA pretreatment. dditionally, hand-picked charcoal fragments also underwent 14C dating by AMS in the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit using the acid-base wet oxidation (ABOX-SC) pretreatment protocol. The 14C dates from the cave's Paleolithic layers obtained by both pretreatment protocols suggest a probable charcoal diagenesis affecting the 14C results of these very old samples. However, the dates obtained with ABOX-SC pretreatment are considered more reliable and in the younger stratigraphic part produced consistent results with the TL dating.	en
heal.journalName	Radiocarbon	en
heal.journalType	peer-reviewed
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