Setting the Record Straight: Toward a Systematic Chronological Understanding of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Boundary in Eurasia
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Lisbon
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CONF. YEAR:
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2006
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CONF. DATES:
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September 4-September 9
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Conference
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None
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Anthropology/Archaeology
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-424-168
(Last edited on
2006/02/12 13:28:35 US/Mountain)
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Setting the Record Straight:
Toward a Systematic Chronological Understanding of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Boundary in Eurasia
The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic boundary marks an important turning point in human history and cultural evolution. The demographic processes underlying this “transition” throughout Eurasia are among the most debated issues in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic archaeology.
Two fundamental models, representing opposing perspectives, have been proposed. The first suggests that Upper Palaeolithic humans coming “Out of Africa” spread rapidly into particular regions of Eurasia and later expanded their range to include other, more peripheral areas. This later phase of population expansion is argued to have instigated the extinction of Neanderthals in their last remaining refugia. The alternate model argues for a multiregional development from Neanderthals to Modern humans and from the Middle to the Upper Palaeolithic. These models, and others, are based not only on the interpretation of hominin fossils and material culture from specific sites, but also, and to a large degree, on stratigraphic records and chronometric age-determinations.
This session thus focuses on the evaluation and re-evaluation of both existing and new regional chronometric records in the context of recent advances in radiocarbon dating and interpretation. We hope to demonstrate that both the selective highlighting of particular radiometric dates and the uncritical use of bulk collections of unfiltered data to promote one model or the other are counter-productive, and that only the development and adoption of a systematic apparatus of quality control will contribute to the spatio-temporal understanding of the demographic processes underlying the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic boundary in Eurasia.
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