Talk:Bonn–Oberkassel dog

Dog's date
This statement is puzzling:
 * The Oberkassel site was previously dated to the Middle Magdalenian .... Radiocarbon dating of the remains in the 1990s instead dated the site to the early portion of the Late Glacial Interstadial.

The puzzle is that (according to WP) the middle Magdalenian is 14,000-15,000 BP and the early Late Glacial Interstadial is 14,000-14,600 BP. They are in the same time range. So, what does this statement mean? Zaslav (talk) 05:34, 13 May 2024 (UTC)


 * @Zaslav Good catch, think I had intended to write that the date was further specified but wrote that unclearly. I think it's worded better. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 05:54, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks for trying. It seems the same to me.  I think you're trying to say the age was "narrowed", but I don't see how.  We non-experts don't see any difference at all between Middle Magdalenian and early Late Glacial Interstatial (with which we are unfamiliar) and  no meaningful difference between 14,000-15,000 BP (my guess about "Middle Magdalenian") and 14,000-14,670 BP.  Note that I use dates because the period names have no meaning to me. Generalissima (talk) (it/she)
 * If radiocarbon gives a date range, please just state the date range. That's independent of conventional names and more precise.  Thanks. Zaslav (talk) 07:33, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
 * I added a parenthetical date; what differs is that it's specifically the earliest portion of that range and that the dating was in reference to geological period rather than cultural periods, which are usually messier and vaguer to date to. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:06, 13 May 2024 (UTC)