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14C Dating of the Upper Paleolithic Site at Krems-Wachtberg, Austria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

T Einwögerer ,
M Händel ,
C Neugebauer-Maresch ,
U Simon ,
P Steier ,
M Teschler-Nicola  and
E M Wild
T Einwögerer
Affiliation:
Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (PK OEAW), A-1010 Vienna, Fleischmarkt 22, Austria
M Händel
Affiliation:
Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (PK OEAW), A-1010 Vienna, Fleischmarkt 22, Austria
C Neugebauer-Maresch
Affiliation:
Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (PK OEAW), A-1010 Vienna, Fleischmarkt 22, Austria
U Simon
Affiliation:
Prehistoric Commission of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (PK OEAW), A-1010 Vienna, Fleischmarkt 22, Austria
P Steier
Affiliation:
VERA Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, Isotope Research, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Währingerstrasse 17, Austria
M Teschler-Nicola
Affiliation:
Natural History Museum Vienna, Department of Anthropology, A-1014 Vienna, Burgring 7, Austria
E M Wild*
Affiliation:
VERA Laboratory, Faculty of Physics, Isotope Research, University of Vienna, A-1090 Vienna, Währingerstrasse 17, Austria
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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In the course of new excavations at the Upper Paleolithic site at Krems-Wachtberg in the loess region near Krems, Lower Austria, a double burial of newborns was discovered in 2005. One year later, a single grave of an infant was excavated nearby. Both graves are associated with the well-preserved living floor of an Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherer camp with distinct archaeological features and a rich Gravettian find assemblage. Several charcoal samples from different stratigraphic positions were 14C dated with the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) method at VERA. The 14C ages confirm the archaeological assessment of the site to the Gravettian time period. According to the uncalibrated 14C ages, the formation time of the living floor is ~27.0 14C kyr BP. 14C data of ~28.6 14C kyr BP determined for an archaeological horizon below the living floor indicate that the location may have been used earlier by people in the Middle Upper Paleolithic.

Type
How to Improve Chronologies of Archaeological Sites
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 847 - 855
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Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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