GSC-2051
Radiocarbon date from
L'Anse aux Meadows,
c. 670–548 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
Contributors: XRONOS development team
Measurement
- Age (uncal BP)
- 640
- Error (±)
- 50
- Lab
- NA
- Method
- NA
- Sample material
- larch wood; bois de mélèze
- Sample taxon
- NA
Calibration
- Calibration curve
- IntCal20 (Reimer et al. 2020)
- Calibrated age (2σ, cal BP)
-
- 670–548
Context
- Site
- L'Anse aux Meadows
- Context
- Sample position
- NA
- Sample coordinates
- NA
Bibliographic references
(26)
- No bibliographic information available. [Rutherford et al. 1984; Lowdon et al. 1974; Taillon et Barrà 1987]
- Bird, D., Miranda, L., Vander Linden, M., Robinson, E., Bocinsky, R. K., Nicholson, C., Capriles, J. M., Finley, J. B., Gayo, E. M., Gil, A., d’Alpoim Guedes, J., Hoggarth, J. A., Kay, A., Loftus, E., Lombardo, U., Mackie, M., Palmisano, A., Solheim, S., Kelly, R. L., & Freeman, J. (2022). P3k14c, a Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates. Scientific Data, 9(1), 27. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7 [p3k14c]
- No bibliographic information available. [Wilmeth 1978; Rutherford et al. 1975; Lowdon et al. 1974; Morlan 1974]
- No bibliographic information available. [Wilmeth 1978; Berry and Drimmie 1982; Blake 1988; A.I. Ingstad 1977; H. Ingstad 1959 1966; McNeely 1989; Nydal 1977 1989; Nydal et al. 1970 1972; Paulssen 1977; B. Wallace p.c. 1999]
- No bibliographic information available. [Lowdon et al. 1969; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon and Blake 1980; Sanger 1967; Trautman 1963; VanDine 1974]
- No bibliographic information available. [Lowdon et al. 1974; Smith 1997]
- No bibliographic information available. [Wilmeth 1978; Lowdon et al. 1969; Cooper and Savage 1994; McAllister and Qadri 1965; Wright 1967 1972c]
- No bibliographic information available. [McCallum and Wittenberg 1965; Dreimanis 1967 1968; Dyck et al. 1966; Jackson 1978; Faunmap 3632]
- No bibliographic information available. [West 1981]
- No bibliographic information available. [Taillon et Barrà 1987]
- No bibliographic information available. [Taillon et Barrà 1987; Barrette et al. 1977; Benmouyal 1984]
- No bibliographic information available. [Borden 1961 1975; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon et al. 1969; McCallum and Dyck 1960; Crane and Griffin 1965; McCallum and Wittenberg 1962; Mitchell and Pokotylo 1996]
- No bibliographic information available. [Borden 1975; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon et al. 1969; Crane and Griffin 1965; Mitchell and Pokotylo 1996]
- No bibliographic information available. [Wilmeth 1978a; Rutherford et al. 1979; MacDonald and Inglis 1981; Ames 2005.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Hole et al. 1969 338-340]
- No bibliographic information available. [Rutherford et al. 1981; Harington 2003: 449; Syms 1983; Faunmap 3812]
- No bibliographic information available. [Rutherford et al. 1984; Blake 1988; Spence et al. 1990; Watson 1980 1981 1990]
- No bibliographic information available. [Kiel DB 2013]
- Jørgensen, E. K. (2020). The Palaeodemographic and Environmental Dynamics of Prehistoric Arctic Norway: An Overview of Human-Climate Covariation. Quaternary International, 549, 36–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.014 [Jørgensen 2020]
- No bibliographic information available. [CARD]
- No bibliographic information available. [Thiaw 1999]
- No bibliographic information available. [Alvarez-Fernandez E. 2007. Zephyrus 60: 43-58.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Khalaily 2007]
- No bibliographic information available. [Hutchinson 1992; Wilson 1989-006; Wilson 1988-075]
- No bibliographic information available. [Harington 2003: 384; Youngman 1993 1994; Burke and Cinq-Mars 1996; Morlan and Cinq-Mars 1982; Cinq-Mars 1979 1990 p.c. 1998 1999; Harington and Cinq-Mars 1995; Faunmap 3750]
- No bibliographic information available. [Cannon 1991; Nelson and Hobson 1982; Rutherford et al. 1984; Chisholm 1986; Hobson and Nelson 1984; Cannon et al. 1999; Carlson 1991 1996]
@misc{Rutherford et al. 1984; Lowdon et al. 1974; Taillon et Barrà 1987,
}
@article{p3k14c,
title = {P3k14c, a Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates},
author = {Bird, Darcy and Miranda, Lux and Vander Linden, Marc and Robinson, Erick and Bocinsky, R. Kyle and Nicholson, Chris and Capriles, José M. and Finley, Judson Byrd and Gayo, Eugenia M. and Gil, Adolfo and d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade and Hoggarth, Julie A. and Kay, Andrea and Loftus, Emma and Lombardo, Umberto and Mackie, Madeline and Palmisano, Alessio and Solheim, Steinar and Kelly, Robert L. and Freeman, Jacob},
year = {2022},
month = {jan},
journal = {Scientific Data},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
pages = {27},
publisher = {Nature Publishing Group},
issn = {2052-4463},
doi = {10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7},
abstract = {Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model prehistoric human demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent projects, funded over the past decade, have assembled such databases from multiple regions of the world. These data provide unprecedented potential for comparative research on human population ecology and the evolution of social-ecological systems across the Earth. However, these databases have been developed using different sample selection criteria, which has resulted in interoperability issues for global-scale, comparative paleo-demographic research and integration with paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental data. We present a synthetic, global-scale archaeological radiocarbon database composed of 180,070 radiocarbon dates that have been cleaned according to a standardized sample selection criteria. This database increases the reusability of archaeological radiocarbon data and streamlines quality control assessments for various types of paleo-demographic research. As part of an assessment of data quality, we conduct two analyses of sampling bias in the global database at multiple scales. This database is ideal for paleo-demographic research focused on dates-as-data, bayesian modeling, or summed probability distribution methodologies.},
copyright = {2022 The Author(s)},
langid = {english},
keywords = {Archaeology,Chemistry},
month_numeric = {1}
}
@misc{Wilmeth 1978; Rutherford et al. 1975; Lowdon et al. 1974; Morlan 1974,
}
@misc{Wilmeth 1978; Berry and Drimmie 1982; Blake 1988; A.I. Ingstad 1977; H. Ingstad 1959 1966; McNeely 1989; Nydal 1977 1989; Nydal et al. 1970 1972; Paulssen 1977; B. Wallace p.c. 1999,
}
@misc{Lowdon et al. 1969; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon and Blake 1980; Sanger 1967; Trautman 1963; VanDine 1974,
}
@misc{Lowdon et al. 1974; Smith 1997,
}
@misc{Wilmeth 1978; Lowdon et al. 1969; Cooper and Savage 1994; McAllister and Qadri 1965; Wright 1967 1972c,
}
@misc{McCallum and Wittenberg 1965; Dreimanis 1967 1968; Dyck et al. 1966; Jackson 1978; Faunmap 3632,
}
@misc{West 1981,
}
@misc{Taillon et Barrà 1987,
}
@misc{Taillon et Barrà 1987; Barrette et al. 1977; Benmouyal 1984,
}
@misc{Borden 1961 1975; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon et al. 1969; McCallum and Dyck 1960; Crane and Griffin 1965; McCallum and Wittenberg 1962; Mitchell and Pokotylo 1996,
}
@misc{Borden 1975; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon et al. 1969; Crane and Griffin 1965; Mitchell and Pokotylo 1996,
}
@misc{Wilmeth 1978a; Rutherford et al. 1979; MacDonald and Inglis 1981; Ames 2005.,
}
@misc{Hole et al. 1969 338-340,
}
@misc{Rutherford et al. 1981; Harington 2003: 449; Syms 1983; Faunmap 3812,
}
@misc{Rutherford et al. 1984; Blake 1988; Spence et al. 1990; Watson 1980 1981 1990,
}
@misc{Kiel DB 2013,
}
@article{Jorgensen2020,
title = {The Palaeodemographic and Environmental Dynamics of Prehistoric Arctic Norway: An Overview of Human-Climate Covariation},
shorttitle = {The Palaeodemographic and Environmental Dynamics of Prehistoric Arctic Norway},
author = {Jørgensen, Erlend Kirkeng},
date = {2020-05-30},
journaltitle = {Quaternary International},
shortjournal = {Quaternary International},
series = {Long-Term Perspectives on Circumpolar Social-Ecological Systems},
volume = {549},
pages = {36–51},
issn = {1040-6182},
doi = {10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.014},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618217315124},
urldate = {2023-09-07},
abstract = {This paper presents the first palaeodemographic results of a newly assembled region-wide radiocarbon record of the Arctic regions of northern Norway. The dataset contains a comprehensive collection of radiocarbon dates in the area (N\,= 1205) and spans the 10,000-year period of hunter-gatherer settlement history from 11500 to 1500 cal BP. Utilizing local, high-resolution palaeoclimate data, the paper performs multi-proxy correlation testing of climate and demographic dynamics, looking for hunter-gatherer responses to climate variability. The paper compares both long-term climate trends and short-term disruptive climate events with the demographic development in the region. The results demonstrate marked demographic fluctuations throughout the period, characterized by a general increase, punctuated by three significant boom and bust-cycles centred on 6000, 3800 and 2200 cal BP, interpreted as instances of climate forcing of human demographic responses. The results strongly suggest the North Cape Current as a primary driver in the local environment and supports the patterns of covariance between coastal climate proxies and the palaeodemographic model. A mechanism of climate forcing mediation through marine trophic webs is proposed as a tentative explanation of the observed demographic fluxes, and a comparison with inter-regional results demonstrate remarkable similarity in demographic trends across mid-Holocene north and west Europe. The results of the north Norwegian radiocarbon record are thus consistent with independent, international efforts, corroborating the existing pan-European results and help further substantiate super-regional climate variability as the primary driver of population dynamics regardless of economic adaptation.},
keywords = {Archaeology,Human ecology,Human/climate covariation,Northern Norway,Palaeodemographic modelling,Summed probability distribution (SPD)}
}
@misc{CARD,
}
@misc{Thiaw 1999,
}
@misc{Alvarez-Fernandez E. 2007. Zephyrus 60: 43-58.,
}
@misc{Khalaily 2007,
}
@misc{Hutchinson 1992; Wilson 1989-006; Wilson 1988-075,
}
@misc{Harington 2003: 384; Youngman 1993 1994; Burke and Cinq-Mars 1996; Morlan and Cinq-Mars 1982; Cinq-Mars 1979 1990 p.c. 1998 1999; Harington and Cinq-Mars 1995; Faunmap 3750,
}
@misc{Cannon 1991; Nelson and Hobson 1982; Rutherford et al. 1984; Chisholm 1986; Hobson and Nelson 1984; Cannon et al. 1999; Carlson 1991 1996,
}
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The results strongly suggest the North Cape Current as a primary driver in the local environment and supports the patterns of covariance between coastal climate proxies and the palaeodemographic model. A mechanism of climate forcing mediation through marine trophic webs is proposed as a tentative explanation of the observed demographic fluxes, and a comparison with inter-regional results demonstrate remarkable similarity in demographic trends across mid-Holocene north and west Europe. 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:bibtex_key: Rutherford et al. 1984; Lowdon et al. 1974; Taillon et Barrà 1987
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :bibtex_key: p3k14c
:bibtex_type: :article
:title: "{P3k14c, a Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates}"
:author: "{Bird, Darcy and Miranda, Lux and Vander Linden, Marc and Robinson, Erick
and Bocinsky, R. Kyle and Nicholson, Chris and Capriles, José M. and Finley, Judson
Byrd and Gayo, Eugenia M. and Gil, Adolfo and d’Alpoim Guedes, Jade and Hoggarth,
Julie A. and Kay, Andrea and Loftus, Emma and Lombardo, Umberto and Mackie, Madeline
and Palmisano, Alessio and Solheim, Steinar and Kelly, Robert L. and Freeman,
Jacob}"
:year: "{2022}"
:month: "{jan}"
:journal: "{Scientific Data}"
:volume: "{9}"
:number: "{1}"
:pages: "{27}"
:publisher: "{Nature Publishing Group}"
:issn: "{2052-4463}"
:doi: "{10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7}"
:abstract: "{Archaeologists increasingly use large radiocarbon databases to model
prehistoric human demography (also termed paleo-demography). Numerous independent
projects, funded over the past decade, have assembled such databases from multiple
regions of the world. These data provide unprecedented potential for comparative
research on human population ecology and the evolution of social-ecological systems
across the Earth. However, these databases have been developed using different
sample selection criteria, which has resulted in interoperability issues for global-scale,
comparative paleo-demographic research and integration with paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental
data. We present a synthetic, global-scale archaeological radiocarbon database
composed of 180,070 radiocarbon dates that have been cleaned according to a standardized
sample selection criteria. This database increases the reusability of archaeological
radiocarbon data and streamlines quality control assessments for various types
of paleo-demographic research. As part of an assessment of data quality, we conduct
two analyses of sampling bias in the global database at multiple scales. This
database is ideal for paleo-demographic research focused on dates-as-data, bayesian
modeling, or summed probability distribution methodologies.}"
:copyright: "{2022 The Author(s)}"
:langid: "{english}"
:keywords: "{Archaeology,Chemistry}"
:month_numeric: "{1}"
---
:bibtex_key: Wilmeth 1978; Rutherford et al. 1975; Lowdon et al. 1974; Morlan 1974
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Wilmeth 1978; Berry and Drimmie 1982; Blake 1988; A.I. Ingstad 1977;
H. Ingstad 1959 1966; McNeely 1989; Nydal 1977 1989; Nydal et al. 1970 1972; Paulssen
1977; B. Wallace p.c. 1999
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Lowdon et al. 1969; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon and Blake 1980; Sanger 1967; Trautman
1963; VanDine 1974
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Lowdon et al. 1974; Smith 1997
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Wilmeth 1978; Lowdon et al. 1969; Cooper and Savage 1994; McAllister
and Qadri 1965; Wright 1967 1972c
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: McCallum and Wittenberg 1965; Dreimanis 1967 1968; Dyck et al. 1966;
Jackson 1978; Faunmap 3632
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: West 1981
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Taillon et Barrà 1987
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Taillon et Barrà 1987; Barrette et al. 1977; Benmouyal 1984
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Borden 1961 1975; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon et al. 1969; McCallum and
Dyck 1960; Crane and Griffin 1965; McCallum and Wittenberg 1962; Mitchell and
Pokotylo 1996
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Borden 1975; Wilmeth 1978a; Lowdon et al. 1969; Crane and Griffin
1965; Mitchell and Pokotylo 1996
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Wilmeth 1978a; Rutherford et al. 1979; MacDonald and Inglis 1981; Ames
2005.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Hole et al. 1969 338-340
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Rutherford et al. 1981; Harington 2003: 449; Syms 1983; Faunmap 3812'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Rutherford et al. 1984; Blake 1988; Spence et al. 1990; Watson 1980 1981
1990
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Kiel DB 2013
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :bibtex_key: Jorgensen2020
:bibtex_type: :article
:title: "{The Palaeodemographic and Environmental Dynamics of Prehistoric Arctic
Norway: An Overview of Human-Climate Covariation}"
:shorttitle: "{The Palaeodemographic and Environmental Dynamics of Prehistoric Arctic
Norway}"
:author: "{Jørgensen, Erlend Kirkeng}"
:date: "{2020-05-30}"
:journaltitle: "{Quaternary International}"
:shortjournal: "{Quaternary International}"
:series: "{Long-Term Perspectives on Circumpolar Social-Ecological Systems}"
:volume: "{549}"
:pages: "{36–51}"
:issn: "{1040-6182}"
:doi: "{10.1016/j.quaint.2018.05.014}"
:url: "{https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618217315124}"
:urldate: "{2023-09-07}"
:abstract: "{This paper presents the first palaeodemographic results of a newly
assembled region-wide radiocarbon record of the Arctic regions of northern Norway.
The dataset contains a comprehensive collection of radiocarbon dates in the area
(N\\,= 1205) and spans the 10,000-year period of hunter-gatherer settlement history
from 11500 to 1500 cal BP. Utilizing local, high-resolution palaeoclimate data,
the paper performs multi-proxy correlation testing of climate and demographic
dynamics, looking for hunter-gatherer responses to climate variability. The paper
compares both long-term climate trends and short-term disruptive climate events
with the demographic development in the region. The results demonstrate marked
demographic fluctuations throughout the period, characterized by a general increase,
punctuated by three significant boom and bust-cycles centred on 6000, 3800 and
2200 cal BP, interpreted as instances of climate forcing of human demographic
responses. The results strongly suggest the North Cape Current as a primary driver
in the local environment and supports the patterns of covariance between coastal
climate proxies and the palaeodemographic model. A mechanism of climate forcing
mediation through marine trophic webs is proposed as a tentative explanation of
the observed demographic fluxes, and a comparison with inter-regional results
demonstrate remarkable similarity in demographic trends across mid-Holocene north
and west Europe. The results of the north Norwegian radiocarbon record are thus
consistent with independent, international efforts, corroborating the existing
pan-European results and help further substantiate super-regional climate variability
as the primary driver of population dynamics regardless of economic adaptation.}"
:keywords: "{Archaeology,Human ecology,Human/climate covariation,Northern Norway,Palaeodemographic
modelling,Summed probability distribution (SPD)}"
---
:bibtex_key: CARD
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Thiaw 1999
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Alvarez-Fernandez E. 2007. Zephyrus 60: 43-58.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Khalaily 2007
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Hutchinson 1992; Wilson 1989-006; Wilson 1988-075
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Harington 2003: 384; Youngman 1993 1994; Burke and Cinq-Mars 1996; Morlan
and Cinq-Mars 1982; Cinq-Mars 1979 1990 p.c. 1998 1999; Harington and Cinq-Mars
1995; Faunmap 3750'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Cannon 1991; Nelson and Hobson 1982; Rutherford et al. 1984; Chisholm
1986; Hobson and Nelson 1984; Cannon et al. 1999; Carlson 1991 1996
:bibtex_type: :misc