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The First 14C Dating of Monuments in European Scythia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Ganna I. Zaitseva ,
Göran Possnert ,
Andrey Yu. Alekseev ,
Valentin A. Dergachev  and
Anatoly A. Sementsov
Ganna I. Zaitseva
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia
Göran Possnert
Affiliation:
The Svedberg Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 533, S-75121, Uppsala, Sweden
Andrey Yu. Alekseev
Affiliation:
The State Hermitage Museum, Dvortsovaya nab. 34, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
Valentin A. Dergachev
Affiliation:
A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Politechnicheskaya ul. 26, St. Petersburg 194021 Russia
Anatoly A. Sementsov
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg 191186, Russia
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The first radiocarbon dates for the famous monuments of European Scythia were produced for the Kelermes, Seven Brothers, Solocha and Chertomlyk barrows (burial mounds) by both accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and conventional methods. The obtained 14C dates confirmed the traditional archaeological chronology, which was based on the analysis of written data and typological comparisons of Scythian artifacts with similar objects found in the Ancient East and Greece. The 14C dates for the European Scythian monuments are compared with the Asian ones. The 14C chronology of the European Scythian monuments shows chronological synchronisms between the Asiatic and European monuments. The calibrated ages for the investigated barrows generally agree with the archaeological data.

Type
Part 2: Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 40 , Issue 2: 16th International Radiocarbon Conference June 16-20, 1997 Part 2: Applications, Conference Editors: Willem G. Mook Johannes van der Plicht , 1997 , pp. 767 - 774
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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