Nelson Bay Cave

Site type

Location

Coordinates (degrees): 034.101° S, 023.378° E
Coordinates (DMS): 034° 06' 00" E, 023° 22' 00" S
Country (ISO 3166): South Africa (ZA)

Lab ID	Context	Material	Taxon	Method	Uncalibrated age	Calibrated age	References
GrN-5702	Unit42	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	2925±35 BP	3167–2964 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
GrN-5703	Unit29	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	1930±60 BP	1992–1715 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
GrN-5715	Unit18	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	2540±50 BP	2756–2465 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
GrN-5884	Atop GL bottom YGL	eggshell	Struthio camelus	conventional 14C	18660±110 BP	22890–22391 cal BP	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
I-6516	YSL	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	16700±240 BP	20730–19574 cal BP	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
OxA-32457	BSL	bone	NA	AMS	10450±50 BP	12616–12099 cal BP	loftus2016rdb
OxA-32458	YSL	bone	NA	AMS	14715±65 BP	18195–17888 cal BP	loftus2016rdb
OxA-32606	BSL	bone	NA	AMS	12155±55 BP	14186–13813 cal BP	loftus2016rdb
OxA-32607	YGL	bone	NA	AMS	18450±100 BP	22515–22181 cal BP	loftus2016rdb
OxA-32608	YGL	bone	NA	AMS	19110±110 BP	23330–22864 cal BP	loftus2016rdb
Pta-1360	Unit22	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	1500±35 BP	1509–1305 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-1361	Unit22	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	455±30 BP	535–476 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-1363	Unit30	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	2085±35 BP	2145–1942 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-1485	Unit31	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	2950±80 BP	3344–2880 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-2909	Unit148	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	5890±70 BP	6887–6503 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-2913	Unit43	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	2970±60 BP	3338–2961 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-2915	Unit129	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	5860±70 BP	6850–6491 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-2920	Unit49	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	3020±35 BP	3342–3077 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-2921	Unit6	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	2450±60 BP	2710–2357 cal BP	inskeep1987nps
Pta-2933	Unit105	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	5320±220 BP	6550–5597 cal BP	inskeep1987nps

Classification	Estimated age	References
LSA	NA	inskeep1987nps
Final LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	inskeep1987nps
Final LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	inskeep1987nps
Final LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
Robberg	NA	NA
LSA	NA	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
Robberg	NA	NA
LSA	NA	loftus2016rdb
Robberg	NA	NA
LSA	NA	loftus2016rdb
Robberg	NA	NA
LSA	NA	loftus2016rdb
Robberg	NA	NA
LSA	NA	loftus2016rdb
Robberg	NA	NA
LSA	NA	loftus2016rdb
Robberg	NA	NA

Bibliographic references

No bibliographic information available. [Banadora]
No bibliographic information available. [Breunig 1987]
No bibliographic information available. [Lee Sep 2010]
No bibliographic information available. [deacon1984lss]
No bibliographic information available. [loftus2016rdb]
No bibliographic information available. [inskeep1987nps]
No bibliographic information available. [fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd]
No bibliographic information available. [SARD]
No bibliographic information available. [Schweitzer F.R. 1979.Excavations at Die Kelders Cape Province South Africa: the Holocene deposits. South African Museum.]
No bibliographic information available. [Lanting/Mook 1977 91.]
No bibliographic information available. [Inskeep R.R. 1987. Nelson Bay Cave. Cape Province South Africa: The Holocene Levels. British Archaeological Reports International Series 357.]
No bibliographic information available. [Sealy J. Ludwig B. and Henderson Z. 2006. New radiocarbon dates for Matjes River rock shelter.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.98-101.]
No bibliographic information available. [Deacon J. 1984. The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa (Vol. 213). British Archaeological Reports: Oxford.]
No bibliographic information available. [Benedict 1992 1981; Benedict and Olson 1973: 325 1978: 196; Buckley 1976: 182; Butler 1981]
No bibliographic information available. [Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III. Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117]
No bibliographic information available. [Stewart B.A. Dewar G.I. Morley M.W. Inglis R.H. Wheeler M. Jacobs Z. and Roberts R.G. 2012. Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: Site formation chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter Lesotho.Quaternary International270 pp.40-60.]
No bibliographic information available. [Loftus E Sealy JC and Lee-Thorp JA. 2016. New Radiocarbon Dates and Bayesian Models for Nelson Bay Cave and Byneskranskop 1: Implications for the South African Later Stone Age Sequence. Radiocarbon 58(2):365–381.]
No bibliographic information available. [Humphreys AJ and Thackeray AI. 1983.Ghaap and Gariep: Later Stone Age studies in the northern Cape(No. 2). South African Archaeological Society:Cape Town.]
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. [Cable J.H.C. 1984. Economy and Technology in the Late Stone Age of Southern Natal (British Archaeological Reports International Series 20I).Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology9.]
No bibliographic information available. [Binneman J.N.F. 1995.Symbolic construction of communities during the Holocene Later Stone Age in the south-eastern Cape(Doctoral dissertation: University of the Witwatersrand).]
No bibliographic information available. [Deacon H.J. 1976.Where hunters gathered: a study of Holocene Stone Age people in the eastern Cape(No. 1). South African Archaeological Society.]
No bibliographic information available. [Lyman 2001; Hutchinson 1992: 41]
No bibliographic information available. [Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 40; Munsell 1976]
No bibliographic information available. [Lyman 2001; Browman and Munsell 1969: 250; Dorn et al. 1962: 7; Greengo 1986: 9]
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]
https://github.com/emmaloftus/Southern-African-Radiocarbon-Database [SARD]

@misc{Banadora,
  
}
@misc{Breunig 1987,
  
}
@misc{Lee Sep 2010,
  
}
@misc{deacon1984lss,
  
}
@misc{loftus2016rdb,
  
}
@misc{inskeep1987nps,
  
}
@misc{fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd,
  
}
@misc{SARD,
  
}
@misc{Schweitzer F.R. 1979.Excavations at Die Kelders Cape Province South Africa: the Holocene deposits. South African Museum.,
  
}
@misc{Lanting/Mook 1977 91.,
  
}
@misc{Inskeep R.R. 1987. Nelson Bay Cave. Cape Province South Africa: The Holocene Levels. British Archaeological Reports International Series 357.,
  
}
@misc{Sealy J. Ludwig B. and Henderson Z. 2006. New radiocarbon dates for Matjes River rock shelter.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.98-101.,
  
}
@misc{Deacon J. 1984. The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa (Vol. 213). British Archaeological Reports: Oxford.,
  
}
@misc{Benedict 1992 1981; Benedict and Olson 1973: 325 1978: 196; Buckley 1976: 182; Butler 1981,
  
}
@misc{Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III. Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117,
  
}
@misc{Stewart B.A. Dewar G.I. Morley M.W. Inglis R.H. Wheeler M. Jacobs Z. and Roberts R.G. 2012. Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: Site formation chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter Lesotho.Quaternary International270 pp.40-60.,
  
}
@misc{Loftus E Sealy JC and Lee-Thorp JA. 2016. New Radiocarbon Dates and Bayesian Models for Nelson Bay Cave and Byneskranskop 1: Implications for the South African Later Stone Age Sequence. Radiocarbon 58(2):365–381.,
  
}
@misc{Humphreys AJ and Thackeray AI. 1983.Ghaap and Gariep: Later Stone Age studies in the northern Cape(No. 2). South African Archaeological Society:Cape Town.,
  
}
@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{Cable J.H.C. 1984. Economy and Technology in the Late Stone Age of Southern Natal (British Archaeological Reports International Series 20I).Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology9.,
  
}
@misc{Binneman J.N.F. 1995.Symbolic construction of communities during the Holocene Later Stone Age in the south-eastern Cape(Doctoral dissertation: University of the Witwatersrand).,
  
}
@misc{Deacon H.J. 1976.Where hunters gathered: a study of Holocene Stone Age people in the eastern Cape(No. 1). South African Archaeological Society.,
  
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Hutchinson 1992: 41,
  
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 40; Munsell 1976,
  
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Browman and Munsell 1969: 250; Dorn et al. 1962: 7; Greengo 1986: 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}
}
@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}
}

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:bibtex_key: Banadora
:bibtex_type: :misc
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:bibtex_key: Breunig 1987
:bibtex_type: :misc
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:bibtex_key: Lee Sep 2010
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: deacon1984lss
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: loftus2016rdb
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: inskeep1987nps
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: SARD
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Schweitzer F.R. 1979.Excavations at Die Kelders Cape Province South
  Africa: the Holocene deposits. South African Museum.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Lanting/Mook 1977 91.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Inskeep R.R. 1987. Nelson Bay Cave. Cape Province South Africa: The
  Holocene Levels. British Archaeological Reports International Series 357.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Sealy J. Ludwig B. and Henderson Z. 2006. New radiocarbon dates for Matjes
  River rock shelter.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.98-101.
: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: 'Benedict 1992 1981; Benedict and Olson 1973: 325 1978: 196; Buckley
  1976: 182; Butler 1981'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III.
  Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Stewart B.A. Dewar G.I. Morley M.W. Inglis R.H. Wheeler M. Jacobs Z.
  and Roberts R.G. 2012. Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: Site formation
  chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter Lesotho.Quaternary International270
  pp.40-60.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Loftus E Sealy JC and Lee-Thorp JA. 2016. New Radiocarbon Dates and
  Bayesian Models for Nelson Bay Cave and Byneskranskop 1: Implications for the South
  African Later Stone Age Sequence. Radiocarbon 58(2):365–381.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Humphreys AJ and Thackeray AI. 1983.Ghaap and Gariep: Later Stone Age
  studies in the northern Cape(No. 2). South African Archaeological Society:Cape Town.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Carter P.L. and Vogel J.C. 1974. The dating of industrial assemblages
  from stratified sites in eastern Lesotho.Man9(4) pp.557-570.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Cable J.H.C. 1984. Economy and Technology in the Late Stone Age of Southern
  Natal (British Archaeological Reports International Series 20I).Cambridge Monographs
  in African Archaeology9.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Binneman J.N.F. 1995.Symbolic construction of communities during the
  Holocene Later Stone Age in the south-eastern Cape(Doctoral dissertation: University
  of the Witwatersrand).'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Deacon H.J. 1976.Where hunters gathered: a study of Holocene Stone Age
  people in the eastern Cape(No. 1). South African Archaeological Society.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Lyman 2001; Hutchinson 1992: 41'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 40; Munsell
  1976'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Lyman 2001; Browman and Munsell 1969: 250; Dorn et al. 1962: 7; Greengo
  1986: 9'
: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: 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}"

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Bibliographic references

Changelog

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