- Tytuł:
- Kostënki 17 (Spitsynskaya) and Kostënki 6 (Streletskaya): recent fieldwork and new C dates.
- Autorzy:
- Temat:
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RADIOCARBON dating
PALEOLITHIC Period
STRATIGRAPHIC geology
PLEISTOCENE Epoch - Alternatywny tytuł:
- Kostënki 17 (Spitsynskaja) und Kostënki 6 (Streletskaja): jüngste Feldforschung und neue C-Daten. (German)
- Źródło:
- Quartär; 2019, Vol. 66, p225-230, 6p
- Terminy geograficzne:
- EUROPEAN Plain
- Abstract (English):
- Archaeological layers at Kostënki 6 and Kostënki 17 have yielded some of the oldest Upper Palaeolithic material on the East European Plain. Major excavations at both sites were undertaken in the early 1950s, and there are outstanding questions concerning their stratigraphies. Here we summarise recent excavation of both sites and present new radiocarbon dates for material from this work. 2017-2019 excavation of Kostënki 17 confirms its well-stratified sequence, although the upper section shows a greater complexity than was noted during earlier work. Our new C date therefore supports an age of >34.3 ka BP for Kostënki 6's archaeological material. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Czasopismo naukowe