On the chronology of the Uluzzian
On the chronology of the Uluzzian
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.007
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发表时间：
2014-03-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Ronchitelli, Anna Maria
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作者：
Douka, Katerina;Higham, Thomas F. G.;Ronchitelli, Anna Maria
Uluzzian是欧洲的“过渡”技术复合体之一，在过去三年中获得了特别的意义，当时唯一与之相关的人类遗骸被归因于现代人，而不是之前认为的尼安德特人。Uluzzian在分层序列中的位置，总是覆盖在Mousterian晚期层和旧石器时代早期层的下面，突出了它在理解旧石器时代中期到晚期的通道以及在地中海东南部欧洲现代人取代尼安德特人方面的重要性。尽管有几项研究调查了其石器技术类型学，分类学和物质文化的各个方面，但Uluzzian年表仍然非常鲜为人知，基于少数可疑的计时测定。在这里，我们的目标是阐明的年代方面的technocomplex提出了一个综合的新的放射性碳的结果和贝叶斯统计方法，从四个分层乌卢齐洞穴序列在意大利和希腊（卡瓦洛，富马内，卡斯泰尔奇维塔和Klissura 1）。除了建立一个可靠的年代框架的Uluzzian，我们研究它的外观，时空传播和相关性，以前和以后的旧石器时代的组合（Mousterian，Protoaurignacian）在相关地区。我们的结论是，乌卢齐安到达意大利和希腊不久前45,000年和其最后阶段被放置在类似的39,500年前，其结束同步（如果不是稍早）与坎帕尼亚火山灰岩喷发。皇冠版权所有（c）2014由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
The Uluzzian, one of Europe's 'transitional' technocomplexes, has gained particular significance over the past three years when the only human remains associated with it were attributed to modern humans, instead of Neanderthals as previously thought. The position of the Uluzzian at stratified sequences, always overlying late Mousterian layers and underlying early Upper Palaeolithic ones, highlights its significance in understanding the passage from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic, as well as the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans in southeastern Mediterranean Europe. Despite several studies investigating aspects of its lithic techno-typology, taxonomy and material culture, the Uluzzian chronology has remained extremely poorly-known, based on a handful of dubious chronometric determinations. Here we aim to elucidate the chronological aspect of the technocomplex by presenting an integrated synthesis of new radiocarbon results and a Bayesian statistical approach from four stratified Uluzzian cave sequences in Italy and Greece (Cavallo, Fumane, Castelcivita and Klissoura 1). In addition to building a reliable chronological framework for the Uluzzian, we examine its appearance, tempo-spatial spread and correlation to previous and later Palaeolithic assemblages (Mousterian, Protoaurignacian) at the relevant regions. We conclude that the Uluzzian arrived in Italy and Greece shortly before 45,000 years ago and its final stages are placed at similar to 39,500 years ago, its end synchronous (if not slightly earlier) with the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption. Crown Copyright (c) 2014 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.