Pontnewydd Cave ,    United Kingdom Go to Data Dashboard
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upper age limit boundary
approx. average age
lower age limit boundary
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Henry
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0.21
0.25
OIS; BIO
The British Lower Palaeolithic: Stones in Contention\n By John McNab; Wood B. (Ed.). (2011). Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution 2 Volume Set: Wiley-Blackwell.
 heidelbergensis;
Homo heidelbergensis
mode2 mode3 This cave has several levels of different ages; and most dates in the deposit are young; but these are not from the MSA; Neanderthal; Acheulean level.
near Bontnewydd wales
Hominid molar other fragments
molar
http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/209627/1.hasCoversheetVersion/James_Cole_PhD_corrected.pdf; Burned core found in cave.Steven R. James R. W. Dennell Allan S. Gilbert Henry T. Lewis J. A. J. Gowlett Thomas F. Lynch W. C. McGrew Charles R. Peters Geoffrey G. Pope Ann B. Stahl and Steven R. James. "Hominid Use of Fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene: A Review of the Evidence." Current Anthropology Vol. 30 No. 1 (Feb. 1989) pp. 1-26
Wood B. (Ed.). (2011). Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution 2 Volume Set: Wiley-Blackwell; could this be a very early Homo neanderthalensis?

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rate entry
0.02597
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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rate entry
0.02707
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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rate entry
0.02847
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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rate entry
0.02873
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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0.02895
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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rate entry
0.029
C14;
AMS C14 based on bear bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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rate entry
0.03287
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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rate entry
0.0332
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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rate entry
0.03527
C14;
AMS C14 based on bone from http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk esearch esearch-groups/oistage3/stage-three-project-database-downloads
FAUNA; archaeology and hominids from lover levels
cave- OxA datelist 22 (1996). Currant; A. 1984 (In: "Pontnewyyd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site. The first Report."; ed. H. Stephen Green; National Musem of Wales; Cardiff).
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