The Radiocarbon Chronology of the Shan-Koba Rock-Shelter, a Late Paaleolithic an Mesoithic Sequence in the Crimean Mountains (Ukraine)
Journal: ARCA (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Year: 2015

This paper presents a new series of AMS dates from the rock-shelter of Shan-Koba in the Crimean mountains (Ukraine). Four bone samples were selected at the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation), and AMS-dated at Groningen Isotopic Laboratory (Holland). The results show that the shelter was not “continuously” settled, as suggested by the excavators. In contrast they indicate that it was inhabited in well-defined periods between the end of the P