Reassessing the environmental context of the Aitape Skull - The oldest tsunami victim in the world?
Identifieur interne : 000355 ( PubMed/Corpus ); précédent : 000354; suivant : 000356Reassessing the environmental context of the Aitape Skull - The oldest tsunami victim in the world?
Auteurs : James Goff ; Mark Golitko ; Ethan Cochrane ; Darren Curnoe ; Shaun Williams ; John TerrellSource :
- PloS one [ 1932-6203 ] ; 2017.
Abstract
There is increasing recognition of the long-lasting effects of tsunamis on human populations. This is particularly notable along tectonically active coastlines with repeated inundations occurring over thousands of years. Given the often high death tolls reported from historical events though it is remarkable that so few human skeletal remains have been found in the numerous palaeotsunami deposits studied to date. The 1929 discovery of the Aitape Skull in northern Papua New Guinea and its inferred late Pleistocene age played an important role in discussions about the origins of humans in Australasia for over 25 years until it was more reliably radiocarbon dated to around 6000 years old. However, no similar attention has been given to reassessing the deposit in which it was found-a coastal mangrove swamp inundated by water from a shallow sea. With the benefit of knowledge gained from studies of the 1998 tsunami in the same area, we conclude that the skull was laid down in a tsunami deposit and as such may represent the oldest known tsunami victim in the world. These findings raise the question of whether other coastal archaeological sites with human skeletal remains would benefit from a re-assessment of their geological context.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185248
PubMed: 29069104
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