Resumen de Two hiatuses in human bone radiocarbon dates in Britain (17000 to 5000 cal BP)
Undertaking a comprehensive review of radiocarbon dates for the 12000 years preceding the Neolithic in Britain, the author defines two periods when human remains become hard to find. One of these (already noted by Chamberlain) lies between 7-6000 BP; the other, a new addition, runs from 13850 to 11000 BP. What could have caused these �hiatuses�? Comparison of dated human remains and dated activities associated with humans, with the climatic record from ice cores, shows that the most likely explanation was a change in burial practice, even if this was itself one of a chain of behavioural changes initiated by the rise in sea level.
