Luminescence dating at Diepkloof Rock Shelter – new dates from single-grain quartz
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From the Cover: A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa.
Ongoing debates about the emergence of modern human behavior, however defined, regularly incorporate observations from the later part of the southern African Middle Stone Age and emphasize the early appearance of artifacts thought to reflect symbolic practice. Here we report a large sample of 270 fragments of intentionally marked ostrich eggshell from the Howiesons Poort at Diepkloof Rock Shelt...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Archaeological Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0305-4403
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.012