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Location

Coordinates (degrees)
018.374° N, 009.403° W
Coordinates (DMS)
018° 22' 00" W, 009° 24' 00" N
Country (ISO 3166)
Mauritania (MR)

radiocarbon date Radiocarbon dates (9)

Lab ID Context Material Taxon Method Uncalibrated age Calibrated age References
Gif-3405 NA NA 5030±110 BP Manning K Timpson A. (2014). The Demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara. Quaternary Science Revie Bird et al. 2022
Gif-2552 Vegetal matter NA NA 4850±130 BP Posnansky M. & McIntosh R. (1976). New radiocarbon dates for northern and western Africa. The Journal of African History 17(02) 161-195. Bird et al. 2022
Gif-2884 Bone and ashes NA NA 3830±120 BP Linseele V. (2007) Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa : Domestic livestock subsistence strategies ans environmental changes. BAR International Series 1658. In : Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 70. 344p. Bird et al. 2022
GX-1890 Shell NA NA 3700±130 BP Linseele V. (2007) Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa : Domestic livestock subsistence strategies ans environmental changes. BAR International Series 1658. In : Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 70. 344p. Bird et al. 2022
Gif-3406 NA NA 3170±90 BP Manning K Timpson A. (2014). The Demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara. Quaternary Science Revie Bird et al. 2022
Gif-2551 Human bone Homo sapiens NA 3120±110 BP Posnansky M. & McIntosh R. (1976). New radiocarbon dates for northern and western Africa. The Journal of African History 17(02) 161-195. Bird et al. 2022
Gif-4110 n.d. NA NA 2610±110 BP Linseele V. (2007) Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa : Domestic livestock subsistence strategies ans environmental changes. BAR International Series 1658. In : Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 70. 344p. Bird et al. 2022
I-3819 Charcoal NA NA 2170±105 BP Linseele V. (2007) Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa : Domestic livestock subsistence strategies ans environmental changes. BAR International Series 1658. In : Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 70. 344p. Bird et al. 2022
Gif-2550 Vegetal matter NA NA 2030±100 BP Posnansky M. & McIntosh R. (1976). New radiocarbon dates for northern and western Africa. The Journal of African History 17(02) 161-195. Bird et al. 2022

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Bibliographic reference Bibliographic references 

@misc{Linseele V. (2007) Archaeofaunal remains from the past 4000 years in Sahelian West Africa : Domestic livestock subsistence strategies ans environmental changes. BAR International Series 1658. In : Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology 70. 344p.,
  
}
@misc{Posnansky M. & McIntosh R. (1976). New radiocarbon dates for northern and western Africa. The Journal of African History 17(02) 161-195.,
  
}
@misc{Manning K Timpson A. (2014). The Demographic response to Holocene climate change in the Sahara. Quaternary Science Revie,
  
}
@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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