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A Chronology of the Scythian Antiquities of Eurasia Based on New Archaeological and 14C Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

A Yu Alekseev ,
N A Bokovenko ,
Yu Boltrik ,
K A Chugunov ,
G Cook ,
V A Dergachev ,
N Kovalyukh ,
G Possnert ,
J van der Plicht  and
E M Scott
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A Yu Alekseev
Affiliation:
The State Hermitage Museum, 191186 St. Petersburg, Russia. Email: oaves@hermitage.ru.
N A Bokovenko
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, 191186 St.Petersburg, Russia
Yu Boltrik
Affiliation:
The Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 254655 Kiev, Ukraine
K A Chugunov
Affiliation:
The Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage, 191011 St. Petersburg, Russia
G Cook
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, SUERC, East Kilbride, Scotland
V A Dergachev
Affiliation:
The Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
N Kovalyukh
Affiliation:
State Scientific Centre of Environmental Radiochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 252680 Kiev, Ukraine
G Possnert
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory of Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
J van der Plicht
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory of Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands
E M Scott
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
A Sementsov
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, 191186 St.Petersburg, Russia
V Skripkin
Affiliation:
State Scientific Centre of Environmental Radiochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 252680 Kiev, Ukraine
S Vasiliev
Affiliation:
The Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
G Zaitseva
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of Russian Academy of Sciences, 191186 St.Petersburg, Russia
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The paper is compares the chronology of the monuments of the Scythian epoch located in the east and west of the Eurasian steppe zone on the basis of both archaeological and radiocarbon data. The lists of 14C dates for the monuments located in different parts of Eurasia are presented according to the periods of their existence. Generally, the 14C dates are confirmed the archaeological point of view and allow us to compare the chronological position of the European and Asian Scythian monuments on the united 14C time scale.

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II. Our ‘Wet’ Environment
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Radiocarbon , Volume 43 , Issue 2B: Proceedings of the 17th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 3), Conference Editors: Israel Carmi, Elisabetta Boaretto , 2001 , pp. 1085 - 1107
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Copyright © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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