Second Radiocarbon Intercomparison Program for the Chauvetpont d'Arc Cave, Ardèche, France
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The Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave is one of the most important sites for the study of the earliest manifestations and development of prehistoric art at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. Different dating techniques have been performed thus far (AMS 14 C, U/Th TIMS, 36 Cl dating) to model the chronological framework of this decorated cave. The cave yielded several large charcoal fragments, which enabled the opportunity for obtaining multiple dates; thus, a First Radiocarbon Intercomparison Program (FIP) was initiated in 2004 using three charcoal pieces. The FIP demonstrated that those cross-dated samples belonged to a time period associated with the first human occupation. One of the statistical interests of an intercomparison program is to reduce the uncertainty on the sample age; thus, to further assess the accuracy of the chronological framework, the Second Intercomparison Program (SIP) involving 10 international 14 C laboratories was carried out on two pieces of charcoal found inside two hearth structures of the Galerie des Mégacéros. Each laboratory used its own pretreatment and AMS facilities. In total, 21 and 22 measurements were performed, respectively, which yielded consistent results averaging ∼32 ka BP. Two strategies have currently been developed to identify statistical outliers and to deal with them; both lead to quasi-identical calibrated combined densities. Finally, the new results were compared with those of the FIP, leading to the important conclusion that five different samples from at least three different hearth structures give really tightened temporal densities, associated with one short human occupation in the Galerie des Mégacéros.
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Seventy-one charcoal samples from the cave floor were selected, and 8 were integrated into three intercomparison programs.
“Seventy-one charcoal samples from the cave floor were selected, and 8 were integrated into three intercomparison programs (14 -16) ( SI Appendix , Table S1).”
From A high-precision chronological model for the decorated Upper Paleolithic cave of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, Ardèche, France (2016) · cites this paper as [15]
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredCombining multiple samples to obtain one sample age density substantially reduces the uncertainty of the sample determination.
“Such modeling substantially reduces the uncertainty of the sample determination.”
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- Quiles, A., Valladas, H., Geneste, J.-M., Clottes, J., Baffler, D., Berthier, B., Brock, F., Ramsey, C. B., Delqué-Količ, E., Dumoulin, J.-P., Hajdas, I., Hippe, K., Hodgins, G. W. L., Hogg, A., Jull, A. J. T., Kaltnecker, E., De Martino, M., Oberlin, C., Petchey, F., Steier, P., Synal, H.-A., van der Plicht, J., Wild, E. M., & Zazzo, A.
- Affiliations
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Ministère de la Culture (FR)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- University of Arizona (US)
- University of Waikato (NZ)
- Lyon 1 Université (FR)
- University of Vienna (AT)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Radiocarbon
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2014
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 833-850
- ISSN
- 0033-8222 (ISSN-L)
- 1945-5755
- OpenAlex
- W2154489925
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- 20
- References
- 15
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- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
- Natural Environment Research Council (NRCF010002)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Keywords
- Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave, charcoal dating, AMS 14C, prehistoric art, Upper Palaeolithic, human occupation, chronological framework, outlier detection, sample preparation, U-Th dating
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