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Late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherer occupation of the high-elevation northern Tibet Plateau
P. Jeffrey Brantingham, Haizhou Ma, Xing Gao, John Olsen, David E. Rhode, David B. Madsen
Geological and archeological surveys of the Kunlun Pass and surrounding high plateau areas have identified a unique archaeological signature for hunter-gatherer occupation of the region. Blade and microbade lithic technologies using a diverse range of stone raw materials, including obsidian, are found in spring, alluvial and glacial terrace contexts ranging in elevation from 4100 to 5000m asl. While most of these sites remain undated, one stratified archaeoloigical site at Xidatan is directly associated with previously published cosmogenic surface ages on glacial outwash terraces. Xidatan 2 provides limiting ages of between 6276 +/- 262 and 8216 +/- 346 BP (calendric) for the occupation of the site. Evidence supporting short and long chronologies for human occupation of the high elevation Tibet Plateau is discussed.
Keywords: TIBET, PALEOLITHIC, COSMOGENIC DATING, LATE PLEISTOCENE, ARCHEOLOGY
P. Jeffrey Brantingham, University of California, Los Angeles, Dept. of Anthropology, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA, branting@ucla.edu
Haizhou Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qinghai Inst. of Salt Lakes, Qinghai 810008, China, haizhouma@isl.ac.cn
Xing Gao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing 100044, China, gaoxing@pa.ivpp.ac.cn
John Olsen, University of Arizona, Dept. of Anthropology, Tucson, AZ 87521, USA, jwo@arizona.edu
David E. Rhode, Desert Research Institute, Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, Reno, NV 89512, USA, dave@dri.edu
David B. Madsen, University of Texas at Austin, Texas Archaeological Research Lab., Austin, TX 78712, USA, madsend@mail.utexas.edu
Session: Climate, Humans and the Environment in Asia
Sub-Theme: Himalaya/Tibetan Plateau
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