Uluzzian artifacts from Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, southern Italy. Credit: Annamaria Ronchitelli and Katerina Douka
Posted on 02/15/2014 6:08:44 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Researchers have securely dated a prehistoric human stone tool industry that is thought to have been used by early modern humans, or possibly late Neanderthals, around the time when early modern humans were beginning to emerge in Europe, arguably sometime between 40,000 to 50,000 years B.P...
The Uluzzian, a prehistoric stone tool techno-tradition represented by lithic artifacts unearthed by archaeologists at cave locations primarily in Italy and Greece, has been a central contender as a possible "transitional" industry between the typical stone tool types (the Mousterian) used by late European Neanderthals and those (Aurignacian, Châtelperronian) of the earliest modern human newcomers to Europe. Uncertainty and debate has historically characterized the exact chronology of the Uluzzian techno-complex, including the identification of the species of human that made and used them. Research within the past few years, buttressed by association of early modern human fossils found in context with Uluzzian tools, has strengthened the suggestion that they belonged to early modern humans.
Now, an international scientific team led by Katerina Douka of the University of Oxford is reporting the results of a new study, concluding that the Uluzzian arose or arrived in what is present-day Italy and Greece shortly before 45,000 years ago, with its latest phases placed at around 39,500 years ago, and "its end synchronous (if not slightly earlier) with the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption".
The Campanian Ignimbrite eruption refers to the eruption of the Archiflegreo volcano around 37,000 years B.P., coincidental or correlated to Middle Paleolithic (beginning 300,000 years ago) to Upper Paleolithic (beginning between 50,000 and 40,000 years ago) cultural transitions and the theorized replacement of Neanderthal populations by anatomically modern humans in southeastern Europe. The replacement theory and the Archiflegreo volcanic eruption as a causal element within this model has been a subject of continuing debate.
(Excerpt) Read more at popular-archaeology.com ...
Uluzzian artifacts from Grotta del Cavallo, Apulia, southern Italy. Credit: Annamaria Ronchitelli and Katerina Douka
I dated Uluzzian but then again, who didn’t.
BP?
British Petroleum?
/johnny
“You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy,” said Bill Clinton looking at an Incan mummy.
Helen Thomas was what, in her mid-20s then?
I put the explanation for BP right in the keywords as I posted this topic.
BP is Before Present, and refers to 1950, when radiocarbon dating was introduced.
You know, if you take those back to Sears, they’ll give you new ones.
those were the days,.. huh!!
When I saw the title, my first thought was, “Well, I might consider dating one, if I were single and I knew what she looked like...”
So many times the same has been said about U, Lazzian!
I object to the use of the “politically corrected” term B.P..
from this topic article:
> The Campanian Ignimbrite eruption refers to the eruption of the Archiflegreo volcano around 37,000 years B.P.
from 2013:
Volcanic eruption near Naples may have killed Neanderthals
03/06/2013
‘Catastrophic’ event at Campi Flegrei 39,000 years ago
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/48995/Volcanic-eruption-near-Naples-may-have-killed-Neanderthals.html
Hey babe, let’s go back to my place so I can show you my tool . . . collection.
The knapping came before, not after, unlike now.
Note: this topic I posted on 2/15/2014. I can't imagine why I didn't add to Catastrophism at the time.
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Volcanic eruption near Naples may have killed Neanderthals
Gazetta Delsud | 3/06/2013 | unattributed
Posted on 2/16/2014 11:28:50 PM by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3123810/posts
Pardon my ignorance, but what does the designation, "BP" mean?
5.56mm
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