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A Tree-Ring and 14C Chronology of the Key Sayan-Altai Monuments

Year: 1997

Type: article

Abstract: We present a radiocarbon chronology of key Sayan-Altai monuments from the Scythian period, based on a statistical analysis of dates produced in the 1980s and now supplemented with new dates. These new 14C dates were produced for samples from the Tuekta-1 barrows (burial mounds) and were measured both in St. Petersburg and Groningen. These tree-ring samples were fitted to the calibration curve. Chronologies were established for the Arzhan, Tuekta-1 and Pazyryk-5 barrows. The time of the construction of the Arzhan and Pazyryk-5 barrows is the 9th and late 5th–4th centuries bc, respectively, and agrees with archaeology. According to new data obtained, the time of the Tuekta-1 barrow construction is some years older than has been accepted thus far by archaeologists.

Source: Radiocarbon

DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200018439

Authors: G. I. Zaitseva, S. S. Vasiliev, L. S. Marsadolov, J. Van Der Plicht, A. A. Sementsov, V. A. Dergachev, L. M. Lebedeva

Institutions: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of History of Material Culture, Ioffe Institute, State Hermitage Museum, University of Groningen

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2158629968

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Cited by: 17

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