Archaeological investigations at the Late Epipaleolithic/Pre-Neolithic campsite of Roudias, Cyprus, have revealed that this location was repeatedly visited by hunter-gatherer groups during the beginning of the Holocene. Despite the placement of the deeper lithic assemblages of the site within the Late Epipaleolithic tradition, the main obstacle of the site has been its lack of absolute ages. Previous attempts to date bone samples recovered from the site using radiocarbon were unsuccessful since the samples did not contain enough collagen to return reliable dates. The absolute chronology of the site within early Cypriot developments—Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene—has been eagerly awaited by researchers who try to document the arrival of the first human groups to the island. This study places the campsite of Roudias in its temporal setting using optically stimulated luminescence dating. Absolute ages (ranging from 7.2 ± 1.3 to 12.8 ± 1.6 ka) provide evidence for the duration of the occupation of the Roudias site from the Late Epipaleolithic (or even earlier) to the Late Aceramic Neolithic, but more importantly, they push back the time of the first colonization of Cyprus and the onset of seagoing practices in the southeastern Mediterranean.

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早期塞浦路斯史前史

在塞浦路斯鲁迪亚斯的旧石器时代晚期/新石器时代前营地的考古调查表明，在全新世初期，狩猎采集者团体多次访问该地点。尽管该遗址在旧石器时代晚期的传统中放置了更深的石器组合，但该遗址的主要障碍是缺乏绝对年龄。以前尝试使用放射性碳对从现场回收的骨骼样本进行测年未成功，因为样本中没有足够的胶原蛋白来提供可靠的日期。试图记录第一批人类群体到达该岛的研究人员一直在热切期待塞浦路斯早期发展（晚更新世或早全新世）中该遗址的绝对年代顺序。这项研究使用光受激发光测年法将 Roudias 露营地置于其时间环境中。绝对年龄（范围从 7.2±1.3 到 12.8±1.6 ka）提供了从旧石器时代晚期（甚至更早）到陶瓷新石器时代晚期对 Roudias 遗址的占领持续时间的证据，但更重要的是，它们将时间推后塞浦路斯的第一次殖民和地中海东南部航海实践的开始。