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14C Wiggle Matching of the ‘Floating’ Tree-Ring Chronology from the Altai Mountains, Southern Siberia: the Ulandryk-4 Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

I Y Slusarenko ,
J A Christen ,
L A Orlova ,
Y V Kuzmin  and
G S Burr
I Y Slusarenko
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology & Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 17, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Email: sljus@bronze.archaeology.nsc.ru.
J A Christen
Affiliation:
Instituto de Matematicas, Campus Morelia UNAM, AP 61-3 (Xangari), 58059 Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
L A Orlova
Affiliation:
Institue of Geology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptyug Ave. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Y V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio St. 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia
G S Burr
Affiliation:
NSF-Arizona AMS Facility, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0081, USA
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Abstract

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The Bayesian approach to calibration of radiocarbon dates was used to wiggle-match the “floating” tree-ring chronology from a Pazyryk culture (Scythian-type complex from Sayan-Altai Mountain system, southern Siberia) burial ground in order to estimate the calendar age of its construction. Seventeen bidecadal tree-ring samples were 14C dated with high precision (±20–30 yr). The results of wiggle-matching show that the Pazyryk-type burial mounds in the southern Altai Mountains were created in the first part of 3rd century BC.

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II. Getting More from the Data
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Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2A: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 3) , 2001 , pp. 425 - 431
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Copyright © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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