Nelson Bay Cave
Archaeological site
in South Africa
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Contributors: XRONOS development team
Location
Radiocarbon dates
(108)
Typological dates
(107)
| 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 | deacon1984lss |
| Oakhurst | NA | NA |
| LSA | NA | fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd |
| Robberg | NA | NA |
| LSA | NA | loftus2016rdb |
| Wilton | NA | NA |
| LSA | NA | loftus2016rdb |
| Wilton | NA | NA |
| LSA | NA | loftus2016rdb |
| Wilton | NA | NA |
| LSA | NA | loftus2016rdb |
| Oakhurst | NA | NA |
Bibliographic references
- No bibliographic information available. [inskeep1987nps]
- No bibliographic information available. [fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd]
- No bibliographic information available. [deacon1984lss]
- No bibliographic information available. [loftus2016rdb]
- 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. [Lanting/Mook 1977 91.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Breunig 1987]
- 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. [SARD]
- No bibliographic information available. [Benedict 1992 1981; Benedict and Olson 1973: 325 1978: 196; Buckley 1976: 182; Butler 1981]
- 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. [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. [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. [Banadora]
- 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. [Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III. Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117]
- 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. [Lee Sep 2010]
- No bibliographic information available. [Deacon J. 1984. The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa (Vol. 213). British Archaeological Reports: Oxford.]
- No bibliographic information available. [Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 40; Munsell 1976]
- No bibliographic information available. [Lyman 2001; Hutchinson 1992: 41]
- No bibliographic information available. [Lyman 2001; Browman and Munsell 1969: 250; Dorn et al. 1962: 7; Greengo 1986: 9]
- 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. [Schweitzer F.R. 1979.Excavations at Die Kelders Cape Province South Africa: the Holocene deposits. South African Museum.]
- https://github.com/emmaloftus/Southern-African-Radiocarbon-Database [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]
@misc{inskeep1987nps,
}
@misc{fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd,
}
@misc{deacon1984lss,
}
@misc{loftus2016rdb,
}
@misc{Inskeep R.R. 1987. Nelson Bay Cave. Cape Province South Africa: The Holocene Levels. British Archaeological Reports International Series 357.,
}
@misc{Lanting/Mook 1977 91.,
}
@misc{Breunig 1987,
}
@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{SARD,
}
@misc{Benedict 1992 1981; Benedict and Olson 1973: 325 1978: 196; Buckley 1976: 182; Butler 1981,
}
@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{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{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{Banadora,
}
@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{Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III. Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117,
}
@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{Lee Sep 2010,
}
@misc{Deacon J. 1984. The Later Stone Age of Southernmost Africa (Vol. 213). British Archaeological Reports: Oxford.,
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 40; Munsell 1976,
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Hutchinson 1992: 41,
}
@misc{Lyman 2001; Browman and Munsell 1969: 250; Dorn et al. 1962: 7; Greengo 1986: 9,
}
@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{Schweitzer F.R. 1979.Excavations at Die Kelders Cape Province South Africa: the Holocene deposits. South African Museum.,
}
@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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:bibtex_key: inskeep1987nps
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: deacon1984lss
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: loftus2016rdb
: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: Lanting/Mook 1977 91.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Breunig 1987
: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: SARD
: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: '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: '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: '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: Banadora
: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: 'Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III.
Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117'
: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: Lee Sep 2010
: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: 'Lyman 2001; Robinson and Thompson 1981; Hutchinson 1992: 40; Munsell
1976'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Lyman 2001; Hutchinson 1992: 41'
: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: '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: 'Schweitzer F.R. 1979.Excavations at Die Kelders Cape Province South
Africa: the Holocene deposits. South African Museum.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
- :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}"
---
- :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}"