Radiocarbon chronology of Manot Cave, Israel and Upper Paleolithic dispersals

Bridget Alex; Omry Barzilai; Israel Hershkovitz; Ofer Marder; Francesco Berna; Valentina Caracuta; Talia Abulafia; Lauren Davis; Mae Goder-Goldberger; Ron Lavi; Eugenia Mintz; Lior Regev; Daniella Bar Yosef Mayer; José Miguel Tejero; Reuven Yeshurun; Avner Ayalon; Mira Bar-Matthews; Gal Yasur; Amos Frumkin; Bruce Latimer; Mark G. Hans; Elisabetta Boaretto

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Radiocarbon chronology of Manot Cave, Israel and Upper Paleolithic dispersals

Bridget Alex^*, Omry Barzilai, Israel Hershkovitz, Ofer Marder, Francesco Berna, Valentina Caracuta, Talia Abulafia, Lauren Davis, Mae Goder-Goldberger, Ron Lavi, Eugenia Mintz, Lior Regev, Daniella Bar Yosef Mayer, José Miguel Tejero, Reuven Yeshurun, Avner Ayalon, Mira Bar-Matthews, Gal Yasur, Amos Frumkin, Bruce LatimerMark G. Hans, Elisabetta Boaretto

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The timing of archeological industries in the Levant is central for understanding the spread of modern humans with Upper Paleolithic traditions. We report a high-resolution radiocarbon chronology for Early Upper Paleolithic industries (Early Ahmarian and Levantine Aurignacian) from the newly excavated site of Manot Cave, Israel. The dates confirm that the Early Ahmarian industry was present by 46,000 calibrated years before the present (cal BP), and the Levantine Aurignacian occurred at least between 38,000 and 34,000 cal BP. This timing is consistent with proposed migrations or technological diffusions between the Near East and Europe. Specifically, the Ahmarian could have led to the development of the Protoaurignacian in Europe, and the Aurignacian in Europe could have spread back to the Near East as the Levantine Aurignacian.

Original language	English
Article number	e1701450
Journal	Science advances
Volume	3
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701450
State	Published - 2017

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National Science Foundation	1334615, 2015303
Office of Innovation and Improvement
AFCEA Educational Foundation
Leakey Foundation
University of Arizona
Case Western Reserve University
Israel National Road Safety Authority
Fulbright Canada
Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program	DGE-1144152
Dan David Prize
Centre Archéologique Européen
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken

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Alex, B., Barzilai, O., Hershkovitz, I., Marder, O., Berna, F., Caracuta, V., Abulafia, T., Davis, L., Goder-Goldberger, M., Lavi, R., Mintz, E., Regev, L., Mayer, D. B. Y., Tejero, J. M., Yeshurun, R., Ayalon, A., Bar-Matthews, M., Yasur, G., Frumkin, A., ... Boaretto, E. (2017). Radiocarbon chronology of Manot Cave, Israel and Upper Paleolithic dispersals. Science advances, 3(11), Article e1701450. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701450

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