Site type

Location

Coordinates (degrees)
011.211° N, 014.033° E
Coordinates (DMS)
011° 12' 00" E, 014° 01' 00" N
Country (ISO 3166)
Cameroon (CM)

radiocarbon date Radiocarbon dates (5)

Lab ID Context Material Taxon Method Uncalibrated age Calibrated age References
Beta-61584 Charcoal NA NA 150±50 BP 284–166 cal BP DELNEUF Michèle ESSOMBA Joseph-Marie FROMENT Alain (éds). Paléo-anthropologie en Afrique centrale : un bilan de l'archéologie au Cameroun. Paris France : L'Harmattan 1998 368p. (Etudes Africaines) ISBN : 2-7384-7405-5 Bird et al. 2022
Beta-61586 Charcoal NA NA 1700±90 BP 1818–1384 cal BP DELNEUF Michèle ESSOMBA Joseph-Marie FROMENT Alain (éds). Paléo-anthropologie en Afrique centrale : un bilan de l'archéologie au Cameroun. Paris France : L'Harmattan 1998 368p. (Etudes Africaines) ISBN : 2-7384-7405-5 Bird et al. 2022
TO-4418 charcoal NA NA 1440±50 BP 1405–1283 cal BP MacEarchern S. (1996). Iron Age beginnings north of the Mandara Mountains Cameroon and Nigeria. In : Pwiti G. & Soper R. (eds.). Aspects of African Archaeology : Proceedings of the the Tenth Pan-African Congress. University of Zimbabwe Press Harare pp.489-495 Bird et al. 2022
TO-4419 charcoal NA NA 1420±50 BP 1400–1193 cal BP MacEarchern S. (1996). Iron Age beginnings north of the Mandara Mountains Cameroon and Nigeria. In : Pwiti G. & Soper R. (eds.). Aspects of African Archaeology : Proceedings of the the Tenth Pan-African Congress. University of Zimbabwe Press Harare pp.489-495 Bird et al. 2022
TO-4421 charcoal NA NA 2150±80 BP 2337–1943 cal BP MacEarchern S. (1996). Iron Age beginnings north of the Mandara Mountains Cameroon and Nigeria. In : Pwiti G. & Soper R. (eds.). Aspects of African Archaeology : Proceedings of the the Tenth Pan-African Congress. University of Zimbabwe Press Harare pp.489-495 Bird et al. 2022

typological date Typological dates (0)

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Bibliographic reference Bibliographic references 

@misc{DELNEUF Michèle ESSOMBA Joseph-Marie FROMENT Alain (éds). Paléo-anthropologie en Afrique centrale : un bilan de l'archéologie au Cameroun. Paris France : L'Harmattan 1998 368p. (Etudes Africaines) ISBN : 2-7384-7405-5,
  
}
@misc{MacEarchern S. (1996). Iron Age beginnings north of the Mandara Mountains Cameroon and Nigeria. In : Pwiti G. & Soper R. (eds.). Aspects of African Archaeology : Proceedings of the the Tenth Pan-African Congress. University of Zimbabwe Press Harare pp.489-495,
  
}
@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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