Latest developments

  • New Publication from Mapping Ancient Africa INQUA project
    New Publication from Mapping Ancient Africa INQUA project

    We are pleased to share the latest contribution to the Mapping Ancient Africa Special Issue of Quaternary International. This study provides valuable insights into the past ecological and cultural dynamics at Wonderwerk Cave. New article:…

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • Webinar Series: Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary!
    Webinar Series: Climate of the Past 20th Anniversary!

    Climate of the Past Celebrates 20 Years with Monthly Webinar Series The European Geosciences Union’s open-access, community-driven journal Climate of the Past (CP) is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2025! To mark the occasion, CP…

  • INQUA 2027 Talk Series
    INQUA 2027 Talk Series

    Join the next INQUA talk featuring “Late Quaternary human response to climate change in southern India” presented by Prof. Ravi Korisettar – NIAS Bengaluru, scheduled for Saturday, 31st May at 11:00 AM IST. Don’t miss…

Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database

Version 32 of the Radiocarbon Paleolithic Europe Database is now available for free.

At the Berlin INQUA 14th Congress (1995) a working group, “European Late Pleistocene Isotopic Stages 2 & 3: Humans, Their Ecology & Cultural Adaptations”, was established by Renault-Miskowsky J, president of the “Comité national français” of the INQUA. One of the objectives was building a database of the human occupation of Europe during this period. The database has been enlarged and now includes Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites connecting them to their environmental conditions and the available chronometric dating.

In this database we have collected the available radiometric data from literature and from other databases. We try to incorporate newly published chronometric dates collected from all kinds of available publications. See list of journals inspected in downloadable file “inspected-journals.xlsx”. For colleagues mainly interested in a list of all chronometric dates an excel list (with no details) is available: (Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database v321 March 2025 extract.xlsx). A file, containing all sites with known coordinates, can be opened for immediate use in Google Earth : “West of 8°E.txt” and “East of 8°.txt”. It will give you the possibility to introduce (by file open) in Google Earth the whole site list in “My Places”.

The database, version 32 (first version was available in 2002), contains now 14277 site forms, most of them with their geographical coordinates, comprising 20665 radiometric data: Conv. 14C and AMS 14C (16413 items), TL (1248 items), OSL (1230 items), ESR, Th/U and AAR (2644 items) from the European (Russian Siberia included) Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic (older than 9500 BP). All dates are conventional dates BP. This improved version 32 replaces the older version 31.

245 new site forms are incorporated and 250 sites have a corrected or an updated content.
The database uses Microsoft Access ©. It can be directly downloaded.

Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database

 

  • New Publication from Mapping Ancient Africa INQUA project
    New Publication from Mapping Ancient Africa INQUA project

    We are pleased to share the latest contribution to the Mapping Ancient Africa Special Issue of Quaternary International. This study provides valuable insights into the past ecological and cultural dynamics at Wonderwerk Cave. New article:…

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • Podcast Homo Erectus Beneath the Waves
    Podcast Homo Erectus Beneath the Waves

    New Podcast “Homo Erectus: Beneath the Waves”. Dive into a fascinating discovery that may rewrite early human history! Listen now on Anthropology.net and uncover the mystery beneath the waves.

  • Podcast INQUA 2027 India
    Podcast INQUA 2027 India

    Quaternary is the age when modern recognisable humans started inhabiting this planet. All over the world scientists are engaged in studying various aspects of human evolution. Once every 4 years scientists from all across the…

  • Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database
    Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Europe Database

    Version 32 of the Radiocarbon Paleolithic Europe Database is now available for free.