Nelson Bay Cave

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	References
UW-176	BSC	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	6020±160 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-177		charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	11950±150 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-178	BSBJ	sediments	NA	conventional 14C	10540±110 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-181	Rice B	other	NA	conventional 14C	8070±240 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-184		marine shell	Patella	conventional 14C	8570±170 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-186	BSC	sediments	NA	conventional 14C	6050±80 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-187	BSC	sediments	NA	conventional 14C	5825±150 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-216	BSC	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	5830±115 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-217	Ivan	Marine shell	NA	conventional 14C	4860±65 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-218	BSL	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	10600±150 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-222	Rice A	charcoal	NA	conventional 14C	6070±125 BP	deacon1984lss
UW-223	MSASPIT 10	sediments	NA	conventional 14C	24100±660 BP	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
UW-224	MSASPIT 8	sediments	NA	conventional 14C	17600±195 BP	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
UW-290	MSASPIT 10	sediments	NA	conventional 14C	22400±340 BP	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd
GrN-5702		charcoal	NA	NA	2925±35 BP	Inskeep R.R. 1987. Nelson Bay Cave. Cape Province South Africa: The Holocene Levels. British Archaeological Reports International Series 357. Bird et al. 2022
GrN-5703		charcoal	NA	NA	1930±60 BP	Lanting/Mook 1977 91. Bird et al. 2022
GrN-5715		charcoal	NA	NA	2540±50 BP	Breunig 1987 Bird et al. 2022
GrN-5884		eggshell	NA	NA	18660±110 BP	Sealy J. Ludwig B. and Henderson Z. 2006. New radiocarbon dates for Matjes River rock shelter.The South African Archaeological Bulletin pp.98-101. Bird et al. 2022
I-6515		charcoal	NA	NA	11080±260 BP	SARD Bird et al. 2022
I-6516		charcoal	NA	NA	16700±240 BP	Benedict 1992 1981; Benedict and Olson 1973: 325 1978: 196; Buckley 1976: 182; Butler 1981 Bird et al. 2022

Classification	Estimated age	References
	NA	NA
	NA	deacon1984lss
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final LSA	NA	NA
Final MSA	NA	NA
Final MSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	loftus2016rdb
LSA	NA	fairhall1973mrd; fairhall1976uwd

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
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: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}"

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Bibliographic references

Changelog

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