OxA-32919
Radiocarbon date from
Sehonghong,
c. 24620–24160 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)
- 20290
- Error (±)
- 90
- Lab
- NA
- Method
- NA
- Sample material
- charcoal
- Sample taxon
- NA
Calibration
- Calibration curve
- SHCal20 (Hogg et al. 2020)
- Calibrated age (2σ, cal BP)
-
- 24620–24160
Context
- Site
- Sehonghong
- Context
- Sample position
- NA
- Sample coordinates
- NA
Bibliographic references
(31)
- No bibliographic information available. [SARD]
- 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. [fewlass2020ced]
- No bibliographic information available. [loftus2015sie]
- No bibliographic information available. [pargeter2017ssi]
- No bibliographic information available. [mitchell1996qlh]
- No bibliographic information available. [mitchell1994uta]
- No bibliographic information available. [carter1988sml]
- No bibliographic information available. [carter1974dia]
- No bibliographic information available. [horsburgh2016rkd]
- No bibliographic information available. [Fewlass H. Mitchell P.J. Casanova E. and Cramp L.J. 2020. Chemical evidence of dairying by hunter-gatherers in highland Lesotho in the late first millennium ad.Nature Human Behaviour pp.1-9.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Oxford Date List 14]
- No bibliographic information available. [Loftus E. Stewart B.A. Dewar G. and Lee‐Thorp J. 2015. Stable isotope evidence of late MIS 3 to middle Holocene palaeoenvironments from Sehonghong Rockshelter eastern Lesotho.Journal of Quaternary Science30(8) pp.805-816.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Bailey G.1997. Klithi; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Pargeter J. Loftus E. and Mitchell P. 2017. New ages from Sehonghong rock shelter: Implications for the late Pleistocene occupation of highland Lesotho.Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports12 pp.307-315.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Mitchell P.J. 1996. The late Quaternary of the Lesotho Highlands southern Africa: Preliminary results and future potential of ongoing research at Sehonghong shelter.Quaternary International33 pp.35-43.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Mitchell P.J. 1994. Understanding the MSA/LSA transition: the pre-20 000 BP assemblages from new excavations at Sehonghong Rock Shelter Lesotho.Southern African Field Archaeology3 pp.15-25.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Vogel J.C. 2000. Radiocarbon dating of the Iron Age sequence in the Limpopo Valley.Goodwin Series pp.51-57.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Sampson C.G. and Vogel J.C. 1995. Radiocarbon chronology of Later Stone Age pottery decorations in the upper Seacow Valley.Southern African Field Archaeology4(2) pp.84-94.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Wadley L. 2001. Who Lived in Mauermanshoek Shelter Korannaberg South Africaà.African Archaeological Review18(3) pp.153-179.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Pistorius J.C. Badenhorst S. and Plug I. 2001. Late Iron Age sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province South Africa.The South African Archaeological Bulletin 56 pp.46-56.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Mitchell P. Plug I. Bailey G. Charles R. Esterhuysen A. Thorp J.L. Parker A. and Woodborne S. 2011. Beyond the drip-line: a high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho.Antiquity85(330) pp.1225-1242.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Parkington J. Fisher Jr J.W. and Tonner T.W. 2009. The fires are constant the shelters are whims: A feature map of Later Stone Age campsites at the Dunefield Midden site Western Cape province South Africa.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.104-121.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Nienaber W.C. and Steyn M. 2005. The rescue excavation and analysis of human remains from Hoekfontein North West Province South Africa.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.1-9.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Carter P.L. and Vogel J.C. 1974. The dating of industrial assemblages from stratified sites in eastern Lesotho.Man9(4) pp.557-570.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Wood M. Dussubieux L. and Wadley L. 2009. A cache of∼ 5000 glass beads from the Sibudu Cave Iron Age occupation.Southern African Humanities21(1) pp.239-261.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Carter P.L. Mitchell P.J. and Vinnicombe P. 1988. Sehonghong: The Middle and Later Stone Age industrial sequence at a Lesotho rockshelter. British Archaeological Reports International Series.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Radiocarbon 1960 63]
- No bibliographic information available. [Horsburgh K.A. Moreno-Mayar J.V. and Gosling A.L. 2016. Revisiting the Kalahari debate in the highlands: ancient DNA provides new faunal identifications at Sehonghong Lesotho.Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa51(3) pp.295-306.]
- 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]
@misc{SARD,
}
@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{fewlass2020ced,
}
@misc{loftus2015sie,
}
@misc{pargeter2017ssi,
}
@misc{mitchell1996qlh,
}
@misc{mitchell1994uta,
}
@misc{carter1988sml,
}
@misc{carter1974dia,
}
@misc{horsburgh2016rkd,
}
@misc{Fewlass H. Mitchell P.J. Casanova E. and Cramp L.J. 2020. Chemical evidence of dairying by hunter-gatherers in highland Lesotho in the late first millennium ad.Nature Human Behaviour pp.1-9.,
}
@misc{Oxford Date List 14,
}
@misc{Loftus E. Stewart B.A. Dewar G. and Lee‐Thorp J. 2015. Stable isotope evidence of late MIS 3 to middle Holocene palaeoenvironments from Sehonghong Rockshelter eastern Lesotho.Journal of Quaternary Science30(8) pp.805-816.,
}
@misc{Bailey G.1997. Klithi; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge.,
}
@misc{Pargeter J. Loftus E. and Mitchell P. 2017. New ages from Sehonghong rock shelter: Implications for the late Pleistocene occupation of highland Lesotho.Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports12 pp.307-315.,
}
@misc{Mitchell P.J. 1996. The late Quaternary of the Lesotho Highlands southern Africa: Preliminary results and future potential of ongoing research at Sehonghong shelter.Quaternary International33 pp.35-43.,
}
@misc{Mitchell P.J. 1994. Understanding the MSA/LSA transition: the pre-20 000 BP assemblages from new excavations at Sehonghong Rock Shelter Lesotho.Southern African Field Archaeology3 pp.15-25.,
}
@misc{Vogel J.C. 2000. Radiocarbon dating of the Iron Age sequence in the Limpopo Valley.Goodwin Series pp.51-57.,
}
@misc{Sampson C.G. and Vogel J.C. 1995. Radiocarbon chronology of Later Stone Age pottery decorations in the upper Seacow Valley.Southern African Field Archaeology4(2) pp.84-94.,
}
@misc{Jerardino AMS. 1996.Changing social landscapes of the western Cape coast of southern Africa over the last 4500 years(Doctoral dissertation University of Cape Town).,
}
@misc{Wadley L. 2001. Who Lived in Mauermanshoek Shelter Korannaberg South Africaà.African Archaeological Review18(3) pp.153-179.,
}
@misc{Pistorius J.C. Badenhorst S. and Plug I. 2001. Late Iron Age sites on Mmatshetshele Mountain in the Central Bankeveld of the North West Province South Africa.The South African Archaeological Bulletin 56 pp.46-56.,
}
@misc{Mitchell P. Plug I. Bailey G. Charles R. Esterhuysen A. Thorp J.L. Parker A. and Woodborne S. 2011. Beyond the drip-line: a high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho.Antiquity85(330) pp.1225-1242.,
}
@misc{Parkington J. Fisher Jr J.W. and Tonner T.W. 2009. The fires are constant the shelters are whims: A feature map of Later Stone Age campsites at the Dunefield Midden site Western Cape province South Africa.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.104-121.,
}
@misc{Nienaber W.C. and Steyn M. 2005. The rescue excavation and analysis of human remains from Hoekfontein North West Province South Africa.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.1-9.,
}
@misc{Carter P.L. and Vogel J.C. 1974. The dating of industrial assemblages from stratified sites in eastern Lesotho.Man9(4) pp.557-570.,
}
@misc{Wood M. Dussubieux L. and Wadley L. 2009. A cache of∼ 5000 glass beads from the Sibudu Cave Iron Age occupation.Southern African Humanities21(1) pp.239-261.,
}
@misc{Carter P.L. Mitchell P.J. and Vinnicombe P. 1988. Sehonghong: The Middle and Later Stone Age industrial sequence at a Lesotho rockshelter. British Archaeological Reports International Series.,
}
@misc{Radiocarbon 1960 63,
}
@misc{Horsburgh K.A. Moreno-Mayar J.V. and Gosling A.L. 2016. Revisiting the Kalahari debate in the highlands: ancient DNA provides new faunal identifications at Sehonghong Lesotho.Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa51(3) pp.295-306.,
}
@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)}
}
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: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}"
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:number: "{1}"
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: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}"
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:bibtex_key: fewlass2020ced
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: loftus2015sie
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: pargeter2017ssi
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: mitchell1996qlh
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: mitchell1994uta
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: carter1988sml
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: carter1974dia
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: horsburgh2016rkd
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Fewlass H. Mitchell P.J. Casanova E. and Cramp L.J. 2020. Chemical evidence
of dairying by hunter-gatherers in highland Lesotho in the late first millennium
ad.Nature Human Behaviour pp.1-9.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Oxford Date List 14
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Loftus E. Stewart B.A. Dewar G. and Lee‐Thorp J. 2015. Stable isotope
evidence of late MIS 3 to middle Holocene palaeoenvironments from Sehonghong Rockshelter
eastern Lesotho.Journal of Quaternary Science30(8) pp.805-816.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Bailey G.1997. Klithi; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Cambridge.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Pargeter J. Loftus E. and Mitchell P. 2017. New ages from Sehonghong
rock shelter: Implications for the late Pleistocene occupation of highland Lesotho.Journal
of Archaeological Science: Reports12 pp.307-315.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Mitchell P.J. 1996. The late Quaternary of the Lesotho Highlands southern
Africa: Preliminary results and future potential of ongoing research at Sehonghong
shelter.Quaternary International33 pp.35-43.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Mitchell P.J. 1994. Understanding the MSA/LSA transition: the pre-20
000 BP assemblages from new excavations at Sehonghong Rock Shelter Lesotho.Southern
African Field Archaeology3 pp.15-25.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Vogel J.C. 2000. Radiocarbon dating of the Iron Age sequence in the Limpopo
Valley.Goodwin Series pp.51-57.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Sampson C.G. and Vogel J.C. 1995. Radiocarbon chronology of Later Stone
Age pottery decorations in the upper Seacow Valley.Southern African Field Archaeology4(2)
pp.84-94.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Jerardino AMS. 1996.Changing social landscapes of the western Cape coast
of southern Africa over the last 4500 years(Doctoral dissertation University of
Cape Town).
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- :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)}"