Luminescence Chronology of the Key-Middle Paleolithic Site Khotylevo I
Quaternary Science Advances 2 (2020) 100008 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Quaternary Science Advances journal homepage: www.journals.elsevier.com/quaternary-science-advances Luminescence chronology of the key-Middle Paleolithic site Khotylevo I (Western Russia) - Implications for the timing of occupation, site formation and landscape evolution M. Hein a,*, M. Weiss a,**, A. Otcherednoy c, T. Lauer a,b a Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany b Leibniz Institute for Applied Geophysics, Geochronology Section, Hannover, Germany c Institute for the History of Material Culture, RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: Here we present the luminescence chronology for the Middle Paleolithic open-air site of Khotylevo I, area I-6-2, in Pleistocene geochronology Western Russia. Even with a sizable number of such sites available on the Russian Plain, to our knowledge, no Fluvial terraces successful corresponding luminescence dating has been published before. Coupled with extensive sedimento- Neanderthal occupation logical logs and grain-size analysis, our data is further used to infer the palaeoenvironmental conditions on site as Periglacial environments well as the landscape-forming processes of the wider region. As the site is contained within the sediments of the Middle paleolithic fl Keilmesser 2nd uvial terrace, our high-resolution chronostratigraphy is a valuable contribution to the understanding of this Paleosols widespread phenomenon and Late Pleistocene geo-climatic events on the Russian Plain. For the formation of the European plain 2nd terrace, a full incision/aggradation cycle was detected with a duration from MIS 5c/5b to MIS 3. Our results indicate that late Middle Paleolithic human occupation took place during the more ameliorate Early Weichselian phase of MIS 5a.
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