Friday, February 8, 2008

Oh, yes, clearly

May I share with you a little of the fascinating archaeology reading I did today?

"However, that level contained both Chatelperronian and Aurignacian material and yielded two dates, ca. 41 and ca. 44 kyr calBP. The only reasonable explanation interpretation of this evidence is that the earlier relates to the Chatelperronian component and the later to the Aurginacian one. At Willendorf II, Austria, the evidence comes form level 3, which yielded a small assemblage of artifacts in secondary position sitting on an eroded surface that yielded soliflucated charcoal dated to ca. 43 kya cal BP. However, as recently acknowledged by the site's researchers, "dating small charcoal fragments dispersed in soliflucated layers must be avoided" because of "the lateral suppoly of older charcoal fragments." Such a supply clearly explains the anomalous results, which simply provide a terimus post quem* for the lithics, the affinities of which lie with the Aurignacian I."

Your guess is as good as mine.

*this sound like Harry Potter to me

1 comment:

mbs said...

cool, i challenge you to get all the technical archeology junk down good enough to understand this blabbery.

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