ARCL 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Taphonomy
13 Dec 2016
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Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Monday, Sept. 19
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)
● Lower paleolithic 3.3 mya - 300 ka
● Middle paleolithic 300-45 ka
● Upper paleolithic 50ka-10ka
How did this site occur?
● Primacy of preservation over study
○ Built elaborative walkways throughout the cave
● Non-destructive recording
● Collaborative approach
○ Team of researchers/specialist
● Multi-disciplinary study
● Cannot be studied from a single perspective
Plurality of approach
● Subterranean climatology
● Study of decorate walls
○ Recording by photography and drawing, technique, pigment analysis
● Karstology
○ Geology, sedimentology, geomorphology, hydrology, taphonomy
● Archaeology of floors
○ Analysis of lithic and bone artifacts, human activities, animal ethology
● Dating C14- radiocarbon dating - (AMS) and U/TH- uranium/ thorium -TIMS
● Paleoenvironmental studies
○ Paleontology, molecular biology, palynology, anthracology, speleothems,
biochemistry
Site formation process
● Original cave entrance was massive and allowed in a lot of sunlight
● People and massive bears were using the caves at the same time
● Bear tracks found throughout the cave
● 430 nima= 0aingn
31,000-28,000 BP paintings
Chronology
● Mostly thrugh dated rick
● All byt two paingings date to the Aurigncien
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