UW-300

radiocarbon date Radiocarbon date from Boomplaas, c. 26240–24261 cal BP
Record created in XRONOS on 2022-12-02 00:50:45 UTC. Last updated on 2022-12-02 00:50:45 UTC. See changelog for details.
Contributors: XRONOS development team

Measurement

Age (uncal BP)
21110
Error (±)
420
Lab
NA
Method
conventional 14C
Sample material
charcoal
Sample taxon
NA

Calibration

Calibration curve
SHCal20 (Hogg et al. 2020)
Calibrated age (2σ, cal BP)
  • 26240–26185
  • 26092–24261

Context

Site
Boomplaas
Context
LPC
Sample position
NA
Sample coordinates
NA

Bibliographic reference Bibliographic references (24)

@misc{fairhall1976uwd,
  
}
@misc{SARD,
  url = {https://github.com/emmaloftus/Southern-African-Radiocarbon-Database},
  note = { Loftus, E., Mitchell, P., & Ramsey, C. (2019). An archaeological radiocarbon database for southern Africa. Antiquity, 93(370), 870-885. doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.75}
}
@misc{miller1999emh,
  
}
@misc{pargeter2018bsa,
  
}
@misc{deacon1983pfr,
  
}
@misc{vogel2001rdm,
  
}
@misc{deacon1984lss,
  
}
@misc{Miller GH Beaumont P Deacon HJ Brooks AS Hare PE and Jull AJ. 1999. Earliest modern humans in southern Africa dated by isoleucine epimerization in ostrich eggshell. Quaternary Science Reviews 18(13):1537–1548.,
  
}
@misc{Stuckenrath et al. 1966; D.W. Clark 1984; Erlandson et al. 1992; Mills 1994,
  
}
@misc{Pargeter J. Loftus E. Stewart B. Mackay A. and Mitchell P. 2017.New ages from Boomplaas Cave South Africa provide increased resolution on late/terminal Pleistocene human behavioural variability. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa,
  
}
@misc{SARD,
  
}
@misc{Vogel JC. 2001. Radiometric dates for the Middle Stone Age in South Africa. In Tobias PV Raath MA Moggi-Cecchi J Doyle GA (eds). Humanity from African Naissance to Coming Millennia Florence University Press: Florence 261–268.,
  
}
@misc{Gallegos,
  
}
@misc{Parkington J. 1992. Making sense of sequence at the Elands Bay cave western Cape South Africa.Guide to archaeological sites in the south-western Cape6 p.12.,
  
}
@misc{Parkington J. and Hall M. 1987. Patterning in recent radiocarbon dates from southern Africa as a reflection of prehistoric settlement and interaction.The Journal of African History28(01) pp.1-25.,
  
}
@misc{Morris AG. 1992. The skeletons of contact. A study of protohistoric burials from the lower Orange River valley South Africa. Witwatersrand University Press: Johannesburg,
  
}
@misc{JAS 27 2000: 75. Bocquet-Appel J.P. & Demars P.Y. 2000. Antiquity 74: 544-52. Higham T.   2012. JHE.,
  
}
@misc{Deacon J. 1984. The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa (Vol. 213). British Archaeological Reports: Oxford.,
  
}
@misc{Cooke C.K. 1963. Report on excavations at Pomongwe and Tshangula Caves Matopo Hills Southern Rhodesia.The South African Archaeological Bulletin18(71) pp.73-151.,
  
}
@misc{Binneman J. and Hall S.. 1993. The context of four painted stones from the South-Eastern and Eastern Cape.Southern African Field Archaeology2 pp.89-95.,
  
}
@misc{Fairhall A Young A and Erickson J. 1976. University of Washington Dates IV. Radiocarbon 18:221–239.,
  
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Fairhall et al. 1976: 230-231; Sprague 1976: 565 1981: 208,
  
}
@misc{Opperman H. 1978. Excavations in the Buffelskloof rock shelter near Calitzdorp southern Cape.The South African Archaeological Bulletin33(127) pp.18-38.,
  
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Browman and Munsell 1969: 250; Fairhall et al. 1966: 504; Greengo 1986: 8,
  
}
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:bibtex_key: fairhall1976uwd
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :bibtex_key: SARD
  :bibtex_type: :misc
  :url: "{https://github.com/emmaloftus/Southern-African-Radiocarbon-Database}"
  :note: "{ Loftus, E., Mitchell, P., & Ramsey, C. (2019). An archaeological radiocarbon
    database for southern Africa. Antiquity, 93(370), 870-885. doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.75}"
---
:bibtex_key: miller1999emh
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: pargeter2018bsa
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: deacon1983pfr
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: vogel2001rdm
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: deacon1984lss
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Miller GH Beaumont P Deacon HJ Brooks AS Hare PE and Jull AJ. 1999. Earliest
  modern humans in southern Africa dated by isoleucine epimerization in ostrich eggshell.
  Quaternary Science Reviews 18(13):1537–1548.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Stuckenrath et al. 1966; D.W. Clark 1984; Erlandson et al. 1992; Mills
  1994
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Pargeter J. Loftus E. Stewart B. Mackay A. and Mitchell P. 2017.New
  ages from Boomplaas Cave South Africa provide increased resolution on late/terminal
  Pleistocene human behavioural variability. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: SARD
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Vogel JC. 2001. Radiometric dates for the Middle Stone Age in South
  Africa. In Tobias PV Raath MA Moggi-Cecchi J Doyle GA (eds). Humanity from African
  Naissance to Coming Millennia Florence University Press: Florence 261–268.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Gallegos
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Parkington J. 1992. Making sense of sequence at the Elands Bay cave western
  Cape South Africa.Guide to archaeological sites in the south-western Cape6 p.12.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Parkington J. and Hall M. 1987. Patterning in recent radiocarbon dates
  from southern Africa as a reflection of prehistoric settlement and interaction.The
  Journal of African History28(01) pp.1-25.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Morris AG. 1992. The skeletons of contact. A study of protohistoric
  burials from the lower Orange River valley South Africa. Witwatersrand University
  Press: Johannesburg'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'JAS 27 2000: 75. Bocquet-Appel J.P. & Demars P.Y. 2000. Antiquity 74:
  544-52. Higham T.   2012. JHE.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Deacon J. 1984. The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa (Vol. 213).
  British Archaeological Reports: Oxford.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Cooke C.K. 1963. Report on excavations at Pomongwe and Tshangula Caves
  Matopo Hills Southern Rhodesia.The South African Archaeological Bulletin18(71) pp.73-151.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Binneman J. and Hall S.. 1993. The context of four painted stones from
  the South-Eastern and Eastern Cape.Southern African Field Archaeology2 pp.89-95.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Fairhall A Young A and Erickson J. 1976. University of Washington Dates
  IV. Radiocarbon 18:221–239.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Lyman 2001; Fairhall et al. 1976: 230-231; Sprague 1976: 565 1981: 208'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Opperman H. 1978. Excavations in the Buffelskloof rock shelter near Calitzdorp
  southern Cape.The South African Archaeological Bulletin33(127) pp.18-38.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Lyman 2001; Browman and Munsell 1969: 250; Fairhall et al. 1966: 504;
  Greengo 1986: 8'
:bibtex_type: :misc

Changelog