Site type

Location

Coordinates (degrees)
041.533° N, 001.675° E
Coordinates (DMS)
041° 31' 00" E, 001° 40' 00" N
Country (ISO 3166)
Spain (ES)

radiocarbon date Radiocarbon dates (17)

Lab ID Context Material Taxon Method Uncalibrated age Calibrated age References
Arizona University Lab Geochemical isotopic charcoal NA 14C 9170±80 BP 10555–10205 cal BP see annex Weninger 2022
AA-6608 charcoal NA NA 36740±920 BP 42446–40005 cal BP Paul Pettitt database. Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72); Zilhao J. 2006. Pyrenae 37:7-84. Bird et al. 2022
AA-7395 charcoal NA NA 37290±990 BP 42816–40375 cal BP Paul Pettitt database. Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72); Zilhao J. 2006. Pyrenae 37:7-84. Bird et al. 2022
AA-8037A charcoal NA NA 35400±810 BP 41974–38910 cal BP Paul Pettitt database. Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72); Zilhao J. 2006. Pyrenae 37:7-84. Bird et al. 2022
AA-8037B charcoal NA NA 37900±1000 BP 43175–40747 cal BP Paul Pettitt database. Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72); Zilhao J. 2006. Pyrenae 37:7-84. Bird et al. 2022
GrA-9705/Lyon-640 bone NA NA 12160±60 BP 14208–13810 cal BP Bridault A. 2000. In SFP mÔøΩmoire 28: 47-57. Mevel L. 2013. Antiquity 389. Bird et al. 2022
NZA-2312 NA NA 43500±1200 BP 48205–44239 cal BP Carbonell 2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam The Geography of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Peabody Museum Bulletin 8: 5-34 Bird et al. 2022
NZA-2313 NA NA 40600±900 BP 44835–42583 cal BP Carbonell 2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam The Geography of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Peabody Museum Bulletin 8: 5-34 Bird et al. 2022
NZA-2314 NA NA 43200±1100 BP 47860–44137 cal BP Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72); Bird et al. 2022
NZA-2315 NA NA 44500±1200 BP 49034–44725 cal BP Campbell & Mardaga-Campbell 1993 Bird et al. 2022
NzA-1817 charcoal NA NA 28440±650 BP 34099–31295 cal BP Paul Pettitt database. Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72); Zilhao J. 2006. Pyrenae 37:7-84. Bird et al. 2022
NzA-1818 charcoal NA NA 23160±490 BP 28445–26380 cal BP Vermeersch 2020 Bird et al. 2022
NzA-2311 charcoal NA NA 36590±640 BP 42239–40520 cal BP Carbonell 2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam x Peabody Museum Bulletin 8: 5-34https://www.nespos.org/pages/viewpage.actionàpageId=76522. Higham T. 2014. Nature 512: 306-309. Bird et al. 2022
NzA-2315 NA NA 43500±1200 BP 48205–44239 cal BP Vaquero 1997 Bird et al. 2022
OxA-12025 charcoal NA NA 39060±350 BP 42930–42390 cal BP Vermeersch 2020 Bird et al. 2022
USGS-2839 charcoal NA NA 36300±1300 BP 42663–38470 cal BP Carbonell 2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam Peabody Museum Bulletin 8: 5-34. Martinez K. 2005 L'Anthropologie109: 815-839. https://www.nespos.org/pages/viewpage.actionàpageId=76952 Bird et al. 2022
USGS-2840 charcoal NA NA 35000±500 BP 41055–39281 cal BP Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 41 Bird et al. 2022

typological date Typological dates (1)

Classification Estimated age References
Epipalaeolithic NA see annex

Bibliographic reference Bibliographic references

@misc{see annex,
  
}
@misc{Paul Pettitt database.  Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72); Zilhao J. 2006. Pyrenae 37:7-84.,
  
}
@misc{Bridault A.  2000. In SFP mÔøΩmoire 28: 47-57.  Mevel L. 2013. Antiquity 389.,
  
}
@misc{Carbonell  2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam The Geography of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Peabody Museum Bulletin 8: 5-34,
  
}
@misc{Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72);,
  
}
@misc{Campbell & Mardaga-Campbell 1993,
  
}
@article{Vermeersch2020,
  title = {Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database: A Regularly Updated Dataset of the Radiometric Data Regarding the Palaeolithic of Europe, Siberia Included},
  author = {Vermeersch, Pierre M},
  year = {2020},
  month = {aug},
  journal = {Data Brief},
  volume = {31},
  pages = {105793},
  issn = {2352-3409},
  doi = {10.1016/j.dib.2020.105793},
  abstract = {At the Berlin INQUA Congress (1995) a working group, European Late Pleistocene Isotopic Stages 2 & 3: Humans, Their Ecology & Cultural Adaptations, was established under the direction of J. Renault-Miskovsky (Institut de Paléontologie humaine, Paris). One of the objectives was building a database of the human occupation of Europe during this period. The database has been enlarged and now includes Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites connecting them to their environmental conditions and the available chronometric dating. From version 14 on, only sites with chronometric data were included. In this database we have collected the available radiometric data from literature and from other more restricted databases. We try to incorporate newly published chronometric dates, collected from all kind of available publications. Only dates older than 9500 uncalibrated BP, correlated with a "cultural" level obtained by scientific excavations of European (Asian Russian Federation included) Palaeolithic sites, have been included. The dates are complemented with information related to cultural remains, stratigraphic, sedimentologic and palaeontologic information within a Microsoft Access database. For colleagues mainly interested in a list of all chronometric dates an Microsoft Excel list (with no details) is available (Tab. 1). A file, containing all sites with known coordinates, that can be opened for immediate use in Google Earth is available as a *.kmz file. It will give the possibility to introduce (by file open) in Google Earth the whole site list in "My Places". The database, version 27 (first version was available in 2002), contains now 13,202 site forms, (most of them with their geographical coordinates), comprising 17,022 radiometric data: Conv. 14C and AMS 14C (13,144 items), TL (678 items), OSL (1050 items), ESR, Th/U and AAR (2150 items) from the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. All 14C dates are conventional dates BP. This improved version 27 replaces the older version 26.},
  month_numeric = {8}
}
@misc{Carbonell  2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam x Peabody Museum Bulletin 8: 5-34https://www.nespos.org/pages/viewpage.actionàpageId=76522. Higham T.  2014. Nature 512: 306-309.,
  
}
@misc{Vaquero 1997,
  
}
@misc{Carbonell  2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam  Peabody Museum Bulletin 8: 5-34. Martinez K. 2005 L'Anthropologie109: 815-839. https://www.nespos.org/pages/viewpage.actionàpageId=76952,
  
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 41,
  
}
@misc{CalPal,
  title = {CalPal Edition 2022.9},
  author = {Weninger, Bernie},
  year = {2022},
  month = {sep},
  doi = {1010.5281/zenodo.7422618},
  url = {https://zenodo.org/record/7422618},
  abstract = {CalPal is scientific freeware for 14C-based chronological research for Holocene and Palaeolithic Archaeology.},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, Open Access},
  howpublished = {Zenodo},
  month_numeric = {9}
}
@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}
}
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---
:bibtex_key: see annex
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Paul Pettitt database.  Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i
  Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72);
  Zilhao J. 2006. Pyrenae 37:7-84.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Bridault A.  2000. In SFP mÔøΩmoire 28: 47-57.  Mevel L. 2013. Antiquity
  389.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Carbonell  2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam The Geography of Neandertals
  and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean Peabody Museum Bulletin
  8: 5-34'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Archaeology: Canal i Roquet J. & Carbonell i Roura E. [] 1989 (Catalunya
  Paleolitica; Patronat Francesc Eiximenis Gerona: 364-72);'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Campbell & Mardaga-Campbell 1993
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :bibtex_key: Vermeersch2020
  :bibtex_type: :article
  :title: "{Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database: A Regularly Updated Dataset
    of the Radiometric Data Regarding the Palaeolithic of Europe, Siberia Included}"
  :author: "{Vermeersch, Pierre M}"
  :year: "{2020}"
  :month: "{aug}"
  :journal: "{Data Brief}"
  :volume: "{31}"
  :pages: "{105793}"
  :issn: "{2352-3409}"
  :doi: "{10.1016/j.dib.2020.105793}"
  :abstract: '{At the Berlin INQUA Congress (1995) a working group, European Late
    Pleistocene Isotopic Stages 2 & 3: Humans, Their Ecology & Cultural Adaptations,
    was established under the direction of J. Renault-Miskovsky (Institut de Paléontologie
    humaine, Paris). One of the objectives was building a database of the human occupation
    of Europe during this period. The database has been enlarged and now includes
    Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites connecting them to their environmental
    conditions and the available chronometric dating. From version 14 on, only sites
    with chronometric data were included. In this database we have collected the available
    radiometric data from literature and from other more restricted databases. We
    try to incorporate newly published chronometric dates, collected from all kind
    of available publications. Only dates older than 9500 uncalibrated BP, correlated
    with a "cultural" level obtained by scientific excavations of European (Asian
    Russian Federation included) Palaeolithic sites, have been included. The dates
    are complemented with information related to cultural remains, stratigraphic,
    sedimentologic and palaeontologic information within a Microsoft Access database.
    For colleagues mainly interested in a list of all chronometric dates an Microsoft
    Excel list (with no details) is available (Tab. 1). A file, containing all sites
    with known coordinates, that can be opened for immediate use in Google Earth is
    available as a *.kmz file. It will give the possibility to introduce (by file
    open) in Google Earth the whole site list in "My Places". The database, version
    27 (first version was available in 2002), contains now 13,202 site forms, (most
    of them with their geographical coordinates), comprising 17,022 radiometric data:
    Conv. 14C and AMS 14C (13,144 items), TL (678 items), OSL (1050 items), ESR, Th/U
    and AAR (2150 items) from the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. All 14C dates
    are conventional dates BP. This improved version 27 replaces the older version
    26.}'
  :month_numeric: "{8}"
---
:bibtex_key: 'Carbonell  2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam x Peabody Museum Bulletin 8:
  5-34https://www.nespos.org/pages/viewpage.actionàpageId=76522. Higham T.  2014.
  Nature 512: 306-309.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Vaquero 1997
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Carbonell  2000 In: Bar-Yosef & Pilbeam  Peabody Museum Bulletin 8:
  5-34. Martinez K. 2005 L''Anthropologie109: 815-839. https://www.nespos.org/pages/viewpage.actionàpageId=76952'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 41'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :bibtex_key: CalPal
  :bibtex_type: :misc
  :title: "{CalPal Edition 2022.9}"
  :author: "{Weninger, Bernie}"
  :year: "{2022}"
  :month: "{sep}"
  :doi: "{1010.5281/zenodo.7422618}"
  :url: "{https://zenodo.org/record/7422618}"
  :abstract: "{CalPal is scientific freeware for 14C-based chronological research
    for Holocene and Palaeolithic Archaeology.}"
  :copyright: "{Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, Open Access}"
  :howpublished: "{Zenodo}"
  :month_numeric: "{9}"
---
- :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}"

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