Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5671/ca.45.1.1
New U-Th Dates from Vindija, Velika pećina (Kličevica) and Mujina pećina and Their Implications for Chronology of the Middle Paleolithic in Croatia
Ivor Karavanić
orcid.org/0000-0003-1452-8394
; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
John Hellstrom
; Faculty of Science, School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Gernot Rabeder
; Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Nikola Vukosavljević
; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Marko Banda
; Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Fred H. Smith
; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, USA
Abstract
This paper reports new results obtained by Uranium-Thorium (U-Th) dating of animal bones, tooth and flowstone samples from three Croatian Middle Paleolithic sites. Dates were obtained on bones and teeth from Vindija (Hrvatsko zagorje) and flowstones from Velika pećina in Kličevica and Mujina pećina (both in Dalmatia). Obtained results support the previously established chronology of the Middle Paleolithic of Croatia by confirming that the oldest layers of Vindija belong to MIS 6 and that Velika pećina in Kličevica was visited by Neandertals after 40 ka BP.
Keywords
U-Th dating; Middle Paleolithic; Vindija; Velika pećina in Kličevica; Mujina pećina; Croatia pećina)
Hrčak ID:
255077
URI
Publication date:
31.3.2021.
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