Comparison of sedimentation and occupation histories inside and outside rock shelters, Keep‐River region, northwestern Australia

Ward, Ingrid; Fullagar, Richard; Boer-Mah, Tessa; Head, Lesley; Taçon, Paul S.C.; Mulvaney, Ken

doi:10.1002/gea.20087

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“…7). Unlike Surovell et al (2009), I could not separate closed and open sites for analysis, since these categories are not discrete (many Australian rockshelters have stratified deposits extending beyond the shelter - Smith, 1986;Gould, 1978;Ward et al, 2006) and as dated open sites are otherwise poorly represented in the datasets used.…”

Section: Taphonomic Lossmentioning

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The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

Williams

2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Taphonomic Lossmentioning

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The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

Williams

2012

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…Specific chronologies have been extrapolated to other sites or broader regions on the basis of stylistic criteria and comparison (e.g. Beaton 1991b;David 1994;Flood and Horsfall 1986;Frost et al 1992;Morwood 1979Morwood , 1986Morwood , 1992bRosenfeld et al 1981;Ward et al 2006). Some shelter art sites have been excavated in order to characterise their lithic assemblages, and it has been assumed that the art and the deposit were contemporaneous phenomena (e.g.…”

Section: The Contemporaneity Of Art and Depositmentioning

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“…More recent recording work (e.g. Tacon et al 2006) indicates that there are still many engraving sites to be found in the west of the region.…”

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Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27) : Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

McDonald¹

2008

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Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia -lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse environments in this isolated quarter of the globe by peoples who have maintained their discrete and traditional ways of life into the recent recorded or remembered past and at times into the observable present. List of volumes in Terra AustralisVolume 1: Burrill Lake and Currarong: Coastal Sites in Southern New South Wales. R.J. Lampert (1971) Volume 2: Ol Tumbuna: Archaeological Excavations in the Eastern Central Highlands, Papua New Guinea. J.P. White (1972) Volume 3 vi Dreamtime Superhighway: an analysis of Sydney Basin rock art and prehistoric information exchange FOREWORD I remember the visit with clarity: it was 1991 and my first trip to Australia. One day was spent at Sydney's West Head with the young and enthusiastic Jo McDonald, where we toured some of the rock engraving sites and the painted Great Mackerel rock shelter. I can still see the large flat curving rocks at West Head on which animals had been engraved -fish, kangaroos, a goanna. And, as is so often the case when I visit rock art sites, my imagination gets going as to the 'how's' and 'why's'. I try to run some sort of a show in my head as to the people who produced these, viewed these, and what kinds of significations the images and their makings played in the lives of past peoples. At the time of this visit, Jo McDonald was well into her 1994 dissertationthe work upon which this monograph is based. Already, in that PhD dissertation, she was able to touch on some of the things that my imagination was searching for. Thus, it is with great pleasure and even more enthusiasm that I am writing this Foreword to a revised and thoroughly up-dated monograph based on that initial dissertation research.At the time of the 1994 dissertation, the anthropological and archaeological study of 'rock art' was really emerging into new trends and new prominence. Surely Australia was one of the leaders in the training of students and in the research that contextualized the images and 'art', thanks to such scholars as Andrée Rosenfeld, Robert Layton, and John Clegg among others. By this time, the work of David Lewis-Williams and colleagues in southern Africa had set off numerous studies world-wide into the relationship between the production of rock art images and altered states of consciousness and the role of shamans in image-making practices. But this was not the direction or focus of rock art studies in Australia, and McDonald's original work would not be tempted either. Rather, she carried out an extensive project of contextualizing the rock art in question, and in two different ways. First, she wanted to give us an understanding of the rock art in its archaeological contexts-sheltered or open, dates and chronologies, site types and, in general, what the archaeology c...

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“…This mixed nature of the artifacts and pottery fragments could have been the result of the non-precise, univocal delineation of the stratigraphic horizons in the cave sequence. Alternatively, it could simply represent the outcome of the various taphonomic processes characteristic of cave sedimentary systems, like the syngenetic inwash of surficial sediments into the cave or postgenetic mixing caused by humans or the soil-dwelling fauna [67].…”

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A radiocarbon-dated cave sequence and thePleistocene/Holocene transition in Hungary

Sümegi

Náfrádi

2015

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Abstract:The Petény Cave located on the Hungarian Highlands yielded one of the most well-documented vertebrate fauna of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in Hungary. In addition to the vertebrate remains, considerable numbers of mollusc shells and charcoals were retrieved from the profile of the rock shelter. Furthermore, a pollen sequence close to the cave was also evaluated in order to reconstruct the flora of the region. A new radiocarbon analysis of samples from the Petény Cave was used to correlate data of different methods and to correct the earlier outcomes. The cave sequence exposes layers from 15.180 cal BP to 483 cal BP. Nevertheless, based on our new radiocarbon data, the sequence is incomplete and layers corresponding to the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary are missing from the profile. The results of our radiocarbon analysis clearly support considerable amounts of thermo-mesophylous gastropod species appearing as early as 15.180 cal BP. The appearance of deciduous woodlands in the Carpathian Basin along with the concomitant mollusc elements is much earlier than previously assumed, supporting the presence of temperate woodland refugia in the study area.

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Comparison of sedimentation and occupation histories inside and outside rock shelters, Keep‐River region, northwestern Australia

Cited by 27 publications

References 43 publications

The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

The use of summed radiocarbon probability distributions in archaeology: a review of methods

Dreamtime Superhighway (TA27) : Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange

A radiocarbon-dated cave sequence and thePleistocene/Holocene transition in Hungary

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