Site type

Location

Coordinates (degrees)
021.573° S, 015.555° E
Coordinates (DMS)
021° 34' 00" E, 015° 33' 00" S
Country (ISO 3166)
Namibia (NA)

radiocarbon date Radiocarbon dates (10)

Lab ID Context Material Taxon Method Uncalibrated age Calibrated age References
Beta-270163 tooth NA NA 2190±40 BP Pleurdeau D. Imalwa E. Détroit F. Lesur J. Veldman A. Bahain J.J. and Marais E. 2012. “Of sheep and men”: earliest direct evidence of caprine domestication in southern Africa at Leopard Cave (Erongo Namibia).PloS one7(7) p.e40340. Bird et al. 2022
Beta-270163 Layer 5 tooth Caprini AMS 2190±40 BP pleurdeau2012sed
Beta-270164 Layer 6 tooth Caprini AMS 2270±40 BP pleurdeau2012sed
Beta-270164 tooth NA NA 2270±40 BP Miller 1992 Bird et al. 2022
Beta-236963 charcoal NA NA 2430±50 BP Pleurdeau D. Imalwa E. Détroit F. Lesur J. Veldman A. Bahain J.J. and Marais E. 2012. “Of sheep and men”: earliest direct evidence of caprine domestication in southern Africa at Leopard Cave (Erongo Namibia).PloS one7(7) p.e40340. Bird et al. 2022
Beta-236963 Layer 6 charcoal NA AMS 2430±50 BP pleurdeau2012sed
Beta-236966 charcoal NA NA 3180±40 BP Pleurdeau D. Imalwa E. Détroit F. Lesur J. Veldman A. Bahain J.J. and Marais E. 2012. “Of sheep and men”: earliest direct evidence of caprine domestication in southern Africa at Leopard Cave (Erongo Namibia).PloS one7(7) p.e40340. Bird et al. 2022
Beta-236966 test pit charcoal NA AMS 3180±40 BP pleurdeau2012sed
Beta-236964 charcoal NA NA 3250±40 BP Pleurdeau D. Imalwa E. Détroit F. Lesur J. Veldman A. Bahain J.J. and Marais E. 2012. “Of sheep and men”: earliest direct evidence of caprine domestication in southern Africa at Leopard Cave (Erongo Namibia).PloS one7(7) p.e40340. Bird et al. 2022
Beta-236964 Layer 7 charcoal NA AMS 3250±40 BP pleurdeau2012sed

typological date Typological dates (10)

Classification Estimated age References
LSA NA pleurdeau2012sed
NA NA
LSA NA pleurdeau2012sed
NA NA
LSA NA pleurdeau2012sed
NA NA
LSA NA pleurdeau2012sed
NA NA
LSA NA pleurdeau2012sed
NA NA

Bibliographic reference Bibliographic references 

@misc{pleurdeau2012sed,
  
}
@misc{Pleurdeau D. Imalwa E. Détroit F. Lesur J. Veldman A. Bahain J.J. and Marais E. 2012. “Of sheep and men”: earliest direct evidence of caprine domestication in southern Africa at Leopard Cave (Erongo Namibia).PloS one7(7) p.e40340.,
  
}
@misc{Miller 1992,
  
}
@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}
}
@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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