Middle Palaeolithic bitumen use at Umm el Tlel around 70 000 BP

作者:Boeda, Eric*; Bonilauri, Stephanie; Connan, Jacques; Jarvie, Dan; Mercier, Norbert; Tobey, Mark; Valladas, Helene; al Sakhel, Heba; Muhesen, Sultan
来源:Antiquity, 2008, 82(318): 853-861.
DOI:10.1017/S0003598X00097623

摘要

The authors identify natural bitumen on stone implements dating to 70 000 BP It is proposed that this represents residue from hafting, taking the practice back a further 30 000 years from the date previously noted and published in Nature. The bitumen was tracked to a source 40km away, using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and carbon isotopes.

  • 出版日期2008-12
  • 单位中国地震局