Late quaternary geology and geochronology of Diring Yuriakh, an Early Paleolithic site in central Siberia

Quaternary Research

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 195-211

  Waters, Michael R ^a   Forman, Steven L ^b   Pierson, James M ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOCHRONOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PALEOLITHIC; QUATERNARY;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 0033067691     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/qres.1998.2024     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Ackerman R. E., Carlson R. L. Diring Yuriakh: An Early Paleolithic site in Yakutia. Current Research in the Pleistocene. 8:1991;1-2.
2. Aitken M. J. Thermoluminescence Dating. 1985;Academic Press, New York.
3. Aitken M. J., Bowman S. G. E. Thermoluminescent dating: Assessment of alpha particle contribution. Archaeometry. 17:1975;132-138.
4. Alekseev, M. N. Kamaletdinov, V. A. Siegert, Ch. Grinenko, O. V. Gnibidenko, A. N. Gravis, G. F. Shamshina, E. A. 1990, Problems of Geology of the Paleolithic Site Diring Yuriakh.
5. Balescu S., Lamothe M. The blue emission of K-fledspar coarse grains and its potential for overcoming TL age underestimates. Quaternary Science Reviews. 11:1992;45-51.
6. Berger G. W. Dating Quaternary events by luminescence. Dating Quaternary Sediments. 1988;Geological Society of America, Boulder. p. 13-50.
7. Bevington P. R. Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences. 1969;McGraw-Hill, New York.
8. Derev'anko A. P. Human occupation of nearby regions and the role of population movements in the Paleolithic of Siberia. Derev'anko A. P., Shimkin D. B., Powers W. R. The Paleolithic of Siberia: New Discoveries and Interpretations. 1998;336-380 Univ. of Illinois Press, Champaign.
9. Dumond D. E. Rocks made by human hands? Science News. 145:1994;243.
10. Forman S. L. Applications and limitations of thermoluminescence to date Quaternary sediments. Quaternary International. 1:1989;47-59.
11. Forman S. L. Late Pleistocene chronology of loess deposition near Luochuan, China. Quaternary Research. 36:1991;19-28.
12. Forman S. L., Oglesby R., Markgraf V., Stafford T. Paleoclimatic significance of Late Quaternary eolian deposition on the piedmont and high plains, central United States. Global and Planetary Change. 11:1995;35-55.
13. Forman S. L., Pierson J., Smith R. P., Hackett W. R., Valentine G. Assessing the accuracy of thermoluminescence to date baked sediments beneath Late Quaternary lava flows, Snake River Plain, Idaho. Journal of Geophysical Research. 99:1994;15569-15576.
14. Forman S. L., Smith R. P., Hackett W. R., Tullis J. A., McDaniel P. A. Timing of glaciations in the western United States based on the age of Late Pleistocene loess on the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. Quaternary Research. 40:1993;30-37.
15. Frechen M. Systematic thermoluminescence dating of two profiles from the middle Rhine area (F.R.G.). Quaternary Science Reviews. 11:1992;93-101.
16. Huntley D. J., Berger G. W., Bowman S. G. E. Thermoluminescence responses to alpha and beta irradiations, and age determinations when the high dose response is non-linear. Nuclear Tracks and Radiation Measurements. 105:1988;279-284.
17. Huntley D. J., Richards M. P. The age of Diring Yuriakh archaeological site. Ancient TL. 15:1997;48-49.
18. Huntley D. J., Wintle A. G. The use of alpha scintillation counting for measuring Th-230 and Pa-231 contents of ocean sediments. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 18:1981;419-432.
19. Klein R. G. The relevance of Old World archeology to the first entry of man into the New World. Quaternary Research. 5:1975;391-394.
20. Krinsley D., Doornkamp J. C. Atlas of Quartz Sand Surface Textures. 1973;Cambridge Press, England.
21. Kuzmin Y. V., Krivonogov S. K. The Diring Paleolithic site, eastern Siberia: Review of geoarchaeological studies. Geoarchaeology. 9:1994;287-300.
22. Larichev V. Ye., Khol'ushkin U. P., Laricheva I. P. Lower and Middle Paleolithic of northern Asia: Achievements, problems and perspectives. Journal of World Prehistory. 1:1987;415-464.
23. Lu Y., Mortlock A. J., Price D. M., Readhead M. L. Thermoluminescence dating of coarse-grain quartz from the Malan Loess at Zhaitang section, China. Quaternary Research. 28:1987;356-363.
24. Lu Y., Prescott J. R., Hutton J. T. Sunlight bleaching of the thermoluminescence of Chinese loess. Quaternary Science Reviews. 7:1988;335-338.
25. Marquardt D. W. An algorith for least squares estimation of nonlinear parameters. Journal of the Society of Industrial Applied Mathematics. 11:1963;431-441.
26. Mejdahl V. Thermoluminescence dating of sediments. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 17:1986;219-227.
27. Michael H. N. Absolute chronologies of Late Pleistocene and early Holocene cultures of Northeastern Asia. Arctic Anthropology. 21:1984;1-68.
28. Mochanov Y. A. Stratigraphy and absolute chronology of the Paleolithic of northeast Asia, According to work of 1963-1973. Bryan A. L. Early Man in America From a Circum-Pacific Perspective. 1978;54-66 Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton.
29. Mochanov Y. A. The Ancient Paleolithic Site of Diring and the Problem of a Nontropical Origin for Humankind. 1992.
30. Mochanov Y. A. The most ancient Paleolithic of the Diring and the problem of a nontropical origin for humanity. Arctic Anthropology. 30:1993;22-53.
31. Musson F. M., Wintle A. G. Luminescence dating of the loess profile at Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic. Quaternary Science Reviews. 13:1994;411-416.
32. Pavlov A. G. Techno-typological and planigraphic description of splitting of boulders from first accumulation of Diring complex of the most ancient Paleolithic. Mochanov Y. A. Archaeological Research in Yakutia. 1992;20-33.
33. Péwé T. L. Origin and Character of Loess Like Silt in Unglaciated South-Central Yakutia, Siberia, U.S.S.R. 1983.
34. Powers W. R. Paleolithic man in Northeast Asia. Arctic Anthropology. 10:1973;1-106.
35. Prescott J. R., Hutton J. T. Cosmic ray contributions to dose rates for luminescence and ESR dating: Large depths and long-term time variations. Radiation Measurements. 23:1994;497-500.
36. Press W. H., Flannery B. P., Teukolsky S. A., Vetterling W. T. Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing. 1986;Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.
37. Pye K., Tsoar H. Aeolian Sand and Sand Dunes. 1990;Unwin Hyman, London.
38. Ranov V. A., Tseitlin S. M. The Palaeolithic site Diring viewed by geologist and archaeologist. Bulletin of Commission for Study of the Quaternary. 60:1991;79-87.
39. Rendell H., Townsend P. D. Thermoluminescence dating of a 10 m loess profile in Pakistan. Quaternary Science Reviews. 7:1988;251-255.
40. Rodbell D. T., Forman S. L., Pierson J., Lynn W. C. Stratigraphy and chronology of Mississippi Valley loess in western Tennessee. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 109:1997;1134-1148.
41. Waters M. R., Forman S. L., Pierson J. M. Diring Yuriakh: A Lower Paleolithic site in central Siberia. Science. 275:1997a;1281-1284.
42. Waters M. R., Forman S. L., Pierson J. M. The age of the Diring Yuriakh archaeological site: Reply to Huntley and Richards. Ancient TL. 15:1997b;50-51.
43. Wintle A. G. Anomalous fading of thermoluminescence in mineral samples. Nature. 245:1973;143-144.
44. Wintle A. G., Huntley D. J. Thermoluminescence dating of ocean sediments. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 17:1980;348-360.
45. Wintle A. G., Huntley D. J. Thermoluminescence dating of sediments. Quaternary Science Reviews. 1:1982;31-53.
46. Yi S., Clark G. Observations on the Lower Palaeolithic of Northeast Asia. Current Anthropology. 24:1983;181-190.
47. Yi S., Clark G. The "Dyuktai Culture" and New World origins. Current Anthropology. 26:1985;1-20.
48. Zhou L. P., Dodonov A. E., Shackleton N. J. Thermoluminescence dating of the Orkutasy Loess section in Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 14:1995;720-730.