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A Lateglacial archaeological site in the far north-west of Europe at Rubha Port an t-Seilich, Isle of Islay, western Scotland: Ahrensburgian-style artefacts, absolute dating and geoarchaeology
Authors
Baales
Baales
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Ballantyne
Ballantyne
Ballin
Ballin
Ballin
Banerjea
Bartlett
Beuker
Beuker
Bjartmann Bjerck
Bratlund
Breivik
Brinch Peterson
Bromley
Bronk Ramsey
Bronk Ramsey
Buck Pederson
Clausen
Coles
Conneller
Courty
Crombé
Cziesla
Cziesla
Dalan
Dawson
De Bie
Deschamps
Dewez
Edwards
Edwards
Finlayson
French
Fries
Fuglestvedt
Gaffney
Glimmerveen
Glørstad
Glørstad
Gob
Goldberg
Grimm
Gé
Hartz
Hartz
Kaiser
Kindgren
Koren
Lane
Lane
Lane
Lind
Lord
Lowe
Lowe
Mangerud
Marshall
Matthews
Matthews
McConnell
Mithen
Mithen
Montgomery
Mortensen
Nösler
Peeters
Pettitt
Pettitt
Prøsch-Danielsen
Pyne-O'Donnell
Ranner
Rasmussen
Reimer
Retallack
Richter
Richter
Riede
Riede
Riede
Riede
Riede
Riede
Rosendahl
Rust
Rust
Saville
Saville
Schmitt
Schmitt
Schmitt
Schmitt
Shillito
Sommer
Taute
Tipping
Tipping
Tromnau
Veil
Vermeersch
Vermeersch
Walker
Wastegård
Weber
Weber
Wicks
Woodward
Wygal
Publication date
1 January 2015
Publisher
Journal of Quaternary Science
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© 2015 The Authors.The exact pattern, process and timing of the human re-colonization of northern Europe after the end of the last Ice Age remain controversial. Recent research has provided increasingly early dates for at least pioneer explorations of latitudes above 54°N in many regions, yet the far north-west of the European landmass, Scotland, has remained an unexplained exception to this pattern. Although the recently described Hamburgian artefacts from Howburn and an assemblage belonging to the arch-backed point complex from Kilmelfort Cave have established at least a sporadic human presence during earlier stages of the Lateglacial Interstadial, we currently lack evidence for Younger Dryas/Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1) activity other than rare stray finds that have been claimed to be of Ahrensburgian affiliation but are difficult to interpret in isolation. We here report the discovery of chipped stone artefacts with technological and typological characteristics similar to those of the continental Ahrensburgian at a locality in western Scotland. A preliminary analysis of associated tephra, pollen and phytoliths, along with microstratigraphic analysis, suggest the artefacts represent one or more episodes of human activity that fall within the second half of GS-1 and the Preboreal period
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