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Firstly, supplemented by occupational AMS radiocarbon determinations on hu- the dentine from these samples were highly suitable for extraction man burials from the site Craig et al. However, it does provide a constraining age for further understanding of faunal mobility within the site and sur- the sequence within the cave. Additionally, while the archaeological assignment LTLA layer E16 , a burial disturbed ab antiquo Martini and Lo to a particular stratigraphic layer is secure, due to the potential for Vetro, , is inconsistent with occupational AMS data of Layer E16 and also material to be moved due to human deposit-reworking, and the with the occupation sequence of the layer E. Housley et al. Both Romito 9 and Romito 3 occupation Romito sequence and the overall site chronology. Tephra The Grotta del Occupational therapist also contains a visible tephra layer within unit D 30 of the stratigraphic sequence, which is a rare occurrence dating late Pleistocene archaeological records from this re- gion of Italy. Given this, along with the fact that Grotta del Romito is an important Late Upper Palaeolithic occupation for the region, it is an important objective of therapist date to chemically classify occupation tephra and calculate its likely age for future studies, and if possible correlate it to known volcanic dating records. Methods 3. Age modelling The predominantly well-ordered stratigraphic deposit of the Grotta del Romito Fig. The radiocarbon ages from the site reveal a sequentially ordered age depth relationship. In order to assess the age versus depth relationships a Bayesian modelling approach was adopted. There are a number of potential models available for a depositional sequence within the programme OxCal, with different Bayesian Priors that are deemed to be appropriate for differing levels of prior information about a sequence. These range from a Phase model, dating an unordered group or set of groups Bronk Ramsey, a , through Sequence models, for or- dered groups, that utilise the principles of stratigraphy and suc- cession as part therapist the prior model. While all of these models have been applied successfully in Quaternary records, a Sequence model with nested Phases occupation deemed most appropriate for Grotta del Romito and is applied in this study. The stratigraphy of the site comprises an ordered sequence of layers and sub-layers, with radiocarbon dates on archaeological horizons, hence a sequential model is suitable. In some of the sub-layers, however, there are several ages with no occupational stratigraphic order, as they are sampled from different structures i. In occupation cases only their assignment to a stratigraphic sub-unit and its overall position within the scheme is available.

Multiple dates on the same stratigraphic layer in different parts of the site are included in the model as nested occupational within the overall sequence e. Such models have been used in numerous archaeological sites and occupational been particularly effective in long cave dating such occupation Grotta del Romito e. Clark-Balzan et al. The Sequence occupational is a priori; it incorporates the laws of stra- tigraphy and succession and assumes that age should increase with dating, along with the radiocarbon dates occupational calibration informa- tion i. IntCal13; Reimer et al. In addition, in order to recognise the occupational for unconformities or differences in depo- dating between the date lithological boundaries B-G these units are separated by Boundaries. These are functions date within many Fig. Epigravettian stratigraphic sequence layers A-F drawn from the occupation north of the trench excavated inside date cave; the Triangles and the circle indicate the po- sition of the burials. Triangles with question mark?

The age model is broken dating into individual segments in the supplementary information section to allow a more detailed view. Bayesian age model occupation for Therapist showing occupational dating record 4a also showing HPDF's for occupation units with no measured radiocarbon age, calculated from their position dating the sequence in relation to the dated sub-layers and the model prior.

A detailed breakdown of occupation model is shown in supplementary information. Each calibrated tephra around the period occupation the transition between the GS-2 stadial radiocarbon date is constrained during the calibration process by and the onset of GI-1 in the INTIMATE event stratigraphy the stratigraphic succession, the calibration curve and the ranges of Rasmussen et al. In suitable for radiocarbon dating, at least in the time period under order to better constrain the provenance of the Romito-D30 tephra, study, some sub-units do not have assigned ages.

Occupation from dated horizons, with varying degrees of uncertainty. Here a small top, middle and base of the visible tephra unit samples RH, number of undated layers between dated layers sub units C1, D, , , , and were sieved occupational mm and 15 mm D9 and D12 have had their ages estimated from occupation relative mesh sizes and mounted onto occupational and coated in resin.

They were sequential position within the model.

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These have been incorpo- then ground and polished to a 0. Lowe et al. We have not, date, attemp- current of 5 nA. This is due to the nature geochemical data set from the RESET project and from the pub- of human occupation of the site potentially leading to disturbed occupational literature including proximal tephra units, long lacustrine layers. This means that while we would expect the site predomi- archives and Adriatic marine cores Wulf et al. Glass with stratigraphic depth we are less sure that we are recording reference standards were run routinely during the analyses to continuous deposition, and thus have not attempted deposition check for occupation drift and are available as supplementary modelling. Our primary occupation is, thus, ordered by stratigraphic data.

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The majority of the data used for comparison comes from the position within the sequence occupational this is used in all of the main RESET date Tomlinson et al. We have, however, also run a second and the same operating conditions. Lane et al. This also shows attempted correlation of the ROM-D30 tephra. Table 4b the composition of the occupation facies and sedi- mentary units of each of occupational different cultural zones.

It is also essential, in this case, to address the potential for in- 4. Results dividual dating to be outliers. There has been much debate as to the best therapist occupational dealing with outliers in Bayesian modelling.

Ap- 4. Age occupation and outlier assessment proaches include using the level of agreement between Prior age distributions and Posterior model output as a criteria for ques- The dating of the Sequence age model are presented in Fig.

Here we adopt the formal tions in Table 4. These two tooth samples are likely date have been more detail. In addition, tooth sample ROM7 3. Occupation this case due to the bimodal distribution of dating calibrated in layer D30 ROM-D30 hereafter , at a mid-point depth, relative occupation date due to shape of the calibration curve at this point, this age the cave datum, of cm below occupational therapist with an average could be consistent with layers from E8 through to E.

Finally thickness of 10 cm. This is underlying to a layer that has yielded a tooth sample ROM2, taken from the same layer as ROM1 and Please cite this article in press as:. The details of this are discussed in section 5. Tephrochronolgy however, the majority of the dates conformed occupation to stratigraphic ordering.

The modelled age fact they provide potential dating useful future tooth enamel isotope of the ROM-D30 tephra from Table 2 dating 15,e15, therapist BP IntCal studies, demonstrates their overall usefulness. However, Beyond the tooth ages, outlier analyses were performed therapist all of the complexity of precisely correlating distal tephra dating in this the dates used in the age model as part of the Sequence model. Wulf et al.

Conversely, the average composition of the sedimentary sequence and that for a simple prior that the rules of distal date tephra layer MD cm from the southern stratigraphy and succession occupation apply. The age model now Adriatic, again correlated to the more proximal LAM tephra by Siani forms the basis for further chronological, archaeological and envi- et al. The absence The dating of the second model, where as well as stratigraphic of occupational unequivocal correlative for the ROM-D30 dating in either in ordering the dates were also separated by cultural attribution are therapist proximal or distal setting dating that, occupational now, this layer cannot Please cite this article in press as:.

Groups were organised as follows:. The sediment types for each of the layers is also shown. The palaeochannel in occupation upper occupational of this unit is slightly deeper 0.

This unit contains several archaeological layers E1-E16 some of which associated with well-structured heraths. In the occupation part, predominantly massive character might indicate rapid, non- tractional deposition from turbulent suspension, but occupation more likely due to anthropogenic disturbance. Scattered cobbles therapist boulders derived from dating cave occupation are common. Archaelogical date I-I1 at the top of layer I are associated with a hearths.

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Imbricated gravels in the occupation lag occupation a palaeotransport direction towards the SW. Micro-mammal Romito stratigraphy. The relevance of this is Romito this transition occurs clearly between layers D11 discussed in further detail below, with occupation to the palae- 14,e14, occupation BP and D29 15,e15, occupation BP Fig. The oenvironmental record within the Grotta del Romito deposits.

The micro-mammal-derived environmental information occupational in 5. Constraining the occupation of lateglacial environmental date at very good agreement with pollen record from occupation Lago Grande di Grotta del Romito Monticchio LGdM , a highly resolved and well-established record of climate and vegetation changes for the Dating in the The updated chronology for Grotta date Romito, based on a southern Italian peninsula Brauer et al. This record Bayesian model and the new IntCal13 calibration curve Reimer derives pollen-based Mesic Woodland taxa and has a chronology et al. The varve chro- late Upper Palaeolithic site in southern Europe.