A matter of months: High precision migration chronology of a Bronze Age female

ABSTRACT The Iron Age chronology at Arslantepe is the result of the interpretation of Luwian hieroglyphic inscriptions and archaeological data coming from the site and its surrounding region. A new round of investigations of the Iron Age levels has been conducted at the site over the last 10 years. Preliminary results allowed the combination of the archaeological sequence with the historical events that extended from the collapse of the Late Bronze Age empires to the formation and development of the new Iron Age kingdoms. The integration into this picture of a new set of radiocarbon (14C) dates is aimed at establishing a more solid local chronology. High precision 14C dating by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and its correlation with archaeobotanical analysis and stratigraphic data are presented here with the purpose of improving our knowledge of the site’s history and to build a reliable absolute chronology of the Iron Age. The results show that the earliest level of the sequence dates to ca. the mid-13th century BC, implying that the site started developing a new set of relationships with the Levant already before the breakdown of the Hittite empire, entailing important historical implications for the Syro-Anatolian region at the end of the 2nd millennium BC.

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Chronology of the Danish Bronze Age Based on 14C Dating of Cremated Bone Remains

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200056538 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 261-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Jesper Olsen ◽

Karen Margrethe Hornstrup ◽

Jan Heinemeier ◽

Pia Bennike ◽

Henrik Thrane

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

High Precision ◽

14C Dating ◽

Broad Agreement ◽

Southern Scandinavia ◽

The Absolute ◽

Bone Remains

The relative Bronze Age chronology for Scandinavia was established as early as 1885. It is traditionally divided into 6 periods (I–VI). Earlier attempts to make an absolute Bronze Age chronology for southern Scandinavia were derived from burials and settlements and were mainly based on radiocarbon-dated charcoal or carbonized cereals, often with undefined archaeological periods. Here, we present high-precision 14C dating on burials with well-defined associated archaeological periods in order to improve the absolute chronology of the Danish Bronze Age. Our results are in broad agreement with the traditional absolute chronology of the Danish Bronze Age. However, our results do indicate that the onset of period III likely occurred earlier than previously thought.

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A first ‘Wessex 1’ date from Wessex

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00066631 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 84 (324) ◽

pp. 363-373 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Stuart Needham ◽

Mike Parker Pearson ◽

Alan Tyler ◽

Mike Richards ◽

Mandy Jay

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

High Precision ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

Museum Specimen

The furnished barrow burials of Wessex represent a maturation of the Beaker rite during the Early Bronze Age in Britain. Many of these burials were unearthed centuries ago, when archaeology was at its most eager and insouciant, but – happily for us – there were often a few careful recorders on hand. Thanks to their records, the modern scientists engaged in the Beaker People Project can still follow the trail back to a museum specimen and obtain high precision dates – as in the case of the ‘Wessex 1’ grave from West Overton in Wessex reported here.

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High-precision dating of ceremonial activity around a large ritual complex in Late Bronze Age Mongolia

Antiquity ◽

10.15184/aqy.2018.175 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 93 (367) ◽

pp. 80-98 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Antoine Zazzo ◽

Sébastien Lepetz ◽

Jérôme Magail ◽

Jamyian-Ombo Gantulga

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

High Precision ◽

Late Bronze Age ◽

Image Position

Abstract

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Early Bronze Jericho: High-Precision 14C Dates of Short-Lived Palaeobotanic Remains

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200018555 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 621-628 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hendrik J. Bruins ◽

Johannes Van Der Plicht

Keyword(s):

Sequence Analysis ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Gibbs Sampling ◽

High Precision ◽

Near East ◽

British Museum ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

Radiocarbon Dates

Reliable series of high-precision radiocarbon dates in a stratified archaeological context are of great importance for interdisciplinary chronological and historical studies. The Early Bronze Age in the Near East is characterized by the beginning of the great civilizations in Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as by urbanization in the Levant. We present stratified high-precision dates of short-lived material of Tell es-Sultan (Jericho), covering Late Proto-Urban/EB I, EB II and EB III layers from Trench III. Our calibrated dates, refined by Bayesian sequence analysis involving Gibbs sampling, are ca. 150–300 yr older than conventional archaeological age assessments. The corpus of 14C dates measured in the first decades after the discovery of 14C dating should not be taken too seriously. The 14C dates of Jericho measured by the British Museum 14C laboratory in 1971 appear to be erroneous.

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Wood from the Netherlands around the Time of the Santorini Eruption Dated by Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/rdc.2020.23 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 62 (4) ◽

pp. 963-967 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Margot Kuitems ◽

Johannes van der Plicht ◽

Esther Jansma

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Bronze Age ◽

High Precision ◽

Calibration Curve ◽

Data Points ◽

Few Data ◽

The Bronze Age

ABSTRACTEighteen new high-precision radiocarbon (14C) dates obtained for dendrochronologically dated wood from Bodegraven, the Netherlands are reported. They are relevant for establishing the revised calibration curve around the time of the Bronze Age Santorini eruption. Most of our new data overlap within one sigma with IntCal13, but a few data points are slightly increased in 14C age compared to IntCal13.

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Pretoria Calibration Curve for Short-Lived Samples, 1930–3350 BC

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200013825 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 73-85 ◽

Cited By ~ 123

Author(s):

J. C. Vogel ◽

AnneMarie Fuls ◽

Ebbie Visser ◽

Bernd Becker

Keyword(s):

Middle East ◽

Bronze Age ◽

High Precision ◽

Calibration Curve ◽

Early Bronze Age ◽

Historical Period ◽

Late Chalcolithic ◽

Standard Calibration ◽

Sample Set ◽

Radiocarbon Calibration

The high-precision radiocarbon calibration curve for short-lived samples (1–4 yr) of the early historical period (3rd millennium BC) presented previously (Vogel et al. 1986) has been further substantiated and extended to link with a similar curve produced by de Jong for part of the 4th millennium BC (de Jong & Mook 1980). The precise dendrochronological age of the sample set measured by de Jong has finally been fixed (de Jong, Mook & Becker 1989), so that the two sets now cover the period 1930–3900 BC, i.e., the Early Bronze Age and Late Chalcolithic periods of the Middle East. The standard calibration curve for the two sets is presented by Vogel and van der Plicht (1993).

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Radiocarbon to Calendar Date Conversion: Calendrical Band Widths as a Function of Radiocarbon Precision

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200064997 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 311-316 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

F. G. McCormac ◽

M. G. L. Baillie

Keyword(s):

Bronze Age ◽

High Precision ◽

Iron Age ◽

Calibration Curve ◽

Band Width ◽

Calendar Date ◽

Range Determination ◽

Age Range ◽

The Bronze Age

Accurate high-precision 14C dating (i.e., ± 20 yr precision or less on the 14C date) provides the narrowest calendrical band width and, hence, the best age range determination possible. However, because of the structure in the 14C calibration curve, the calendar age range for a given 14C precision is not constant throughout the calibration range. In this study, we quantify the calendar band widths for a range of 14C precisions throughout the calibration range. We show that an estimate of the likely calendar band width in years can be obtained from the expression: Band width (yr) = 2.12 x 14C precision (1 σ) + 54.6. We also show that calendar band widths are widest around 4000 BP at the start of the Bronze Age, and become narrow through the later Bronze Age and Iron Age and back into the Neolithic.

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Automatic measurement of SAED patterns from asbestos minerals

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100106296 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 46 ◽

pp. 846-847

Author(s):

J. C. Russ ◽

T. Taguchi ◽

P. M. Peters ◽

E. Chatfield ◽

J. C. Russ ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Diffraction Pattern ◽

High Precision ◽

Diffraction Data ◽

Automatic Measurement ◽

Automatic Method ◽

Important Method ◽

X Ray ◽

Integrated Intensity ◽

Asbestiform Minerals ◽

True Center

Conventional SAD patterns as obtained in the TEM present difficulties for identification of materials such as asbestiform minerals, although diffraction data is considered to be an important method for making this purpose. The preferred orientation of the fibers and the spotty patterns that are obtained do not readily lend themselves to measurement of the integrated intensity values for each d-spacing, and even the d-spacings may be hard to determine precisely because the true center location for the broken rings requires estimation. We have implemented an automatic method for diffraction pattern measurement to overcome these problems. It automatically locates the center of patterns with high precision, measures the radius of each ring of spots in the pattern, and integrates the density of spots in that ring. The resulting spectrum of intensity vs. radius is then used just as a conventional X-ray diffractometer scan would be, to locate peaks and produce a list of d,I values suitable for search/match comparison to known or expected phases.

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On effects of non-systematic reflections on weak-beam images of partial dislocations

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100087756 ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 688-689

Author(s):

K. Z. Botros ◽

S. S. Sheinin

Keyword(s):

High Precision ◽

Stacking Fault ◽

Important Application ◽

Stacking Fault Energy ◽

Sharp Peak ◽

Weak Beam ◽

Partial Dislocations ◽

Deviation Parameter ◽

Beam Diffraction

The main features of weak beam images of dislocations were first described by Cockayne et al. using calculations of intensity profiles based on the kinematical and two beam dynamical theories. The feature of weak beam images which is of particular interest in this investigation is that intensity profiles exhibit a sharp peak located at a position very close to the position of the dislocation in the crystal. This property of weak beam images of dislocations has an important application in the determination of stacking fault energy of crystals. This can easily be done since the separation of the partial dislocations bounding a stacking fault ribbon can be measured with high precision, assuming of course that the weak beam relationship between the positions of the image and the dislocation is valid. In order to carry out measurements such as these in practice the specimen must be tilted to "good" weak beam diffraction conditions, which implies utilizing high values of the deviation parameter Sg.

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