Spoeg River Cave

Site type

Location

Coordinates (degrees): 030.294° S, 017.272° E
Coordinates (DMS): 030° 17' 00" E, 017° 16' 00" S
Country (ISO 3166): South Africa (ZA)

Lab ID	Context	Material	Taxon	Method	Uncalibrated age	Calibrated age	References
GrA-9027	Layer 7, YBS, D6	bone	Ovis aries	AMS	1260±50 BP	1286–1070 cal BP	webley2002esc
GrA-9027		bone	NA	NA	1260±50 BP	1286–1070 cal BP	Webley L 2002. The re-excavation of Spoegrivier Cave on the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 2:19–49. Bird et al. 2022
Pta-4753	C9, Hearth 3 in Twiggy 20 cm		NA	conventional 14C	1390±50 BP	1378–1177 cal BP	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
Pta-4753			NA	NA	1390±50 BP	1378–1177 cal BP	Villa P. Soriano S. Tsanova T. Degano I. Higham T.F. d’Errico F. Backwell L. Lucejko J.J. Colombini M.P. and Beaumont P.B. 2012. Border cave and the beginning of the later stone age in South Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences109(33) pp.13208-13213. Bird et al. 2022
Pta-6750			NA	NA	1450±50 BP	1410–1285 cal BP	SARD Bird et al. 2022
Pta-6750	Layer 4, CST, C6, 12-15 cm		NA	conventional 14C	1450±50 BP	1410–1285 cal BP	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
GrA-0930	Layer 9, GAS 2, C4	bone	Ovis aries	AMS	1490±50 BP	1515–1297 cal BP	webley2002esc
GrA-0930		bone	NA	NA	1490±50 BP	1515–1297 cal BP	SARD Bird et al. 2022
GrA-9029	Layer 9, GAS2 C6	bone	Ovis aries	AMS	1890±50 BP	1930–1704 cal BP	webley2002esc
GrA-9029		bone	NA	NA	1890±50 BP	1930–1704 cal BP	Webley L 2002. The re-excavation of Spoegrivier Cave on the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 2:19–49. Bird et al. 2022
GrA-9032	Layer 10,SAS C6, 60-67 cm	bone	Ovis aries	AMS	1900±50 BP	1935–1709 cal BP	webley2002esc
GrA-9028	Layer 10,SAS, C6	bone	Ovis aries	AMS	1900±50 BP	1935–1709 cal BP	webley2002esc
GrA-9032		bone	NA	NA	1900±50 BP	1935–1709 cal BP	Weiser W. 1996. Eraul 76:: 105-113. Antl. W. : www.iabrno.cz/pv/antl.pdf. Walpurga A. Quaternary Science Journal 62 / 2: 2013 / 120-126 . Bird et al. 2022
GrA-9028		bone	NA	NA	1900±50 BP	1935–1709 cal BP	Webley L 2002. The re-excavation of Spoegrivier Cave on the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 2:19–49. Bird et al. 2022
Pta-4745	Hearth 12 above FBS andShelly Patch 91 cm		NA	conventional 14C	1920±40 BP	1935–1732 cal BP	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
Pta-4745			NA	NA	1920±40 BP	1935–1732 cal BP	SARD Bird et al. 2022
Pta-6749	Layer 6b, Twiggy 6, C6, 40-50 cm		NA	conventional 14C	1930±50 BP	1985–1734 cal BP	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
Pta-6749			NA	NA	1930±50 BP	1985–1734 cal BP	SARD Bird et al. 2022
Pta-6334		marine other	NA	NA	2020±60 BP	2142–1797 cal BP	Kaplan J. and Mitchell P. 2012. The archaeology of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phases IA and IB.Southern African Humanities24(1) pp.1-32. Bird et al. 2022
Pta-6334	C9, Patella 45 cm	marine other	Jasus lalandii	conventional 14C	2020±60 BP	2142–1797 cal BP	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap

Classification	Estimated age	References
LSA	NA	webley2002esc
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	webley2002esc
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	webley2002esc
Final LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	webley2002esc
Final LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	webley2002esc
Final LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	sealy1994cip
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA
LSA	NA	vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
Ceramic LSA	NA	NA

Bibliographic references

No bibliographic information available. [webley2002esc]
No bibliographic information available. [sealy1994cip]
No bibliographic information available. [vogel1997dis; webley1992hap]
No bibliographic information available. [SARD]
No bibliographic information available. [Webley L 2002. The re-excavation of Spoegrivier Cave on the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 2:19–49.]
No bibliographic information available. [Weiser W. 1996. Eraul 76:: 105-113. Antl. W. : www.iabrno.cz/pv/antl.pdf. Walpurga A. Quaternary Science Journal 62 / 2: 2013 / 120-126 .]
No bibliographic information available. [Hedges R.E.M. Housley R.A. Ramsey C.B. and Van Klinken G.J. 1994. Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 18.Archaeometry36(2) pp.337-374.]
No bibliographic information available. [Villa P. Soriano S. Tsanova T. Degano I. Higham T.F. d’Errico F. Backwell L. Lucejko J.J. Colombini M.P. and Beaumont P.B. 2012. Border cave and the beginning of the later stone age in South Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences109(33) pp.13208-13213.]
No bibliographic information available. [Kaplan J. and Mitchell P. 2012. The archaeology of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phases IA and IB.Southern African Humanities24(1) pp.1-32.]
No bibliographic information available. [Vogel J.C. 2000. Radiocarbon dating of the Iron Age sequence in the Limpopo Valley.Goodwin Series pp.51-57.]
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. [Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III. Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117]
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{webley2002esc,
  
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@misc{sealy1994cip,
  
}
@misc{vogel1997dis; webley1992hap,
  
}
@misc{SARD,
  
}
@misc{Webley L 2002. The re-excavation of Spoegrivier Cave on the west coast of South Africa. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 2:19–49.,
  
}
@misc{Weiser W. 1996. Eraul 76:: 105-113. Antl. W. :  www.iabrno.cz/pv/antl.pdf. Walpurga A. Quaternary Science Journal  62 /  2: 2013 / 120-126 .,
  
}
@misc{Hedges R.E.M. Housley R.A. Ramsey C.B. and Van Klinken G.J. 1994. Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 18.Archaeometry36(2) pp.337-374.,
  
}
@misc{Villa P. Soriano S. Tsanova T. Degano I. Higham T.F. d’Errico F. Backwell L. Lucejko J.J. Colombini M.P. and Beaumont P.B. 2012. Border cave and the beginning of the later stone age in South Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences109(33) pp.13208-13213.,
  
}
@misc{Kaplan J. and Mitchell P. 2012. The archaeology of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phases IA and IB.Southern African Humanities24(1) pp.1-32.,
  
}
@misc{Vogel J.C. 2000. Radiocarbon dating of the Iron Age sequence in the Limpopo Valley.Goodwin Series pp.51-57.,
  
}
@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{Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III. Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117,
  
}
@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: webley2002esc
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:bibtex_key: sealy1994cip
:bibtex_type: :misc
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:bibtex_key: vogel1997dis; webley1992hap
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: SARD
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Webley L 2002. The re-excavation of Spoegrivier Cave on the west coast
  of South Africa. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 2:19–49.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Weiser W. 1996. Eraul 76:: 105-113. Antl. W. :  www.iabrno.cz/pv/antl.pdf.
  Walpurga A. Quaternary Science Journal  62 /  2: 2013 / 120-126 .'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: 'Hedges R.E.M. Housley R.A. Ramsey C.B. and Van Klinken G.J. 1994. Radiocarbon
  dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 18.Archaeometry36(2) pp.337-374.'
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Villa P. Soriano S. Tsanova T. Degano I. Higham T.F. d’Errico F. Backwell
  L. Lucejko J.J. Colombini M.P. and Beaumont P.B. 2012. Border cave and the beginning
  of the later stone age in South Africa.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences109(33)
  pp.13208-13213.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Kaplan J. and Mitchell P. 2012. The archaeology of the Lesotho Highlands
  Water Project Phases IA and IB.Southern African Humanities24(1) pp.1-32.
:bibtex_type: :misc
---
:bibtex_key: Vogel J.C. 2000. Radiocarbon dating of the Iron Age sequence in the Limpopo
  Valley.Goodwin Series pp.51-57.
: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: 'Vogel JC Fuls A and Visser E. 1986. Pretoria Radiocarbon dates III.
  Radiocarbon 28: 1133-117'
: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

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