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- Title
Another Dating Revolution for Prehistoric Archaeology?
- Authors
Cochrane, Grant; Doelman, Trudy; Wadley, Lyn
- Abstract
Transitions to the Howiesons Poort Industry and other early modern human cultural phases have conventionally been explained as direct or indirect responses to major climatic and ecological fluctuations. Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating have now provided the time resolution necessary to refute these explanations. However, for improvements in dating methods to have a revolutionary impact on the archaeology of early modern human evolution, the correction of these flawed narratives can only be regarded as a first step. What is more important is that the discipline now embraces the opportunity to analyse cultural entities in terms of their internal temporal structure, and hence to realign praxis with contemporary evolutionary theory.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; PREHISTORIC antiquities; ARCHAEOLOGICAL dating; SOCIAL evolution; OPTICALLY stimulated luminescence dating; HOWIESONS Poort Site (South Africa)
- Publication
Journal of Archaeological Method & Theory, 2013, Vol 20, Issue 1, p42
- ISSN
1072-5369
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10816-011-9125-0