New data on the chronology of Palaeolithic sites in loessic environments of northeastern and southeastern Romania (Eastern periphery of the Carpathian Mountains)

作者：Balescu, Sanda^*; Tuffreau, Alain; Dobrescu, Roxana; Auguste, Patrick; Bahain, Jean Jacques; Lamothe, Michel; Petculescu, Alexandru; Shao, Qingfeng

来源：l'Anthropologie, 2018, 122(2): 87-110.

DOI：10.1016/j.anthro.2018.02.001

• Paleolithic
• Loess
• IRSL Dating
• ESR/U-Th dating
• Romania

In the present study, the chronology of several intraloessic Upper and Middle Palaeolithic sites, located in Moldova, Dobrogea and the eastern Danube Plain, is re-examined and better defined on the basis of new chronological data (IRSL ages on loess, ESR/U-Th ages on teeth) and also biostratigraphic and pedostratigraphic evidence. Middle Palaeolithic occupations have been identified in the MIS 6 loess L2 (interstadial episode), the MIS 7 pedocomplex S2 and the red soils S3 presumably assigned to MIS 9. These results are questioning the chronological extension of the Middle Palaeolithic in Romania which until early 2000 (Patinescu, 1999 a, b; Carciumaru, 1999) was restricted to the Upper Pleistocene (short chronology: 130-35 ka; MIS 5-MIS 3). Hence, we demonstrate herein that Humans were already present during the Middle Pleistocene at the eastern periphery of the Carpathian Mountains, along the Danube valley and its tributary, the Prut River.

• 出版日期2018-5
• 单位南京师范大学