The Early Neolithic Complex on the Tartas-1 Site: Results of the AMS Radiocarbon Dating

Bone and charcoal samples from the Neolithic site of Serra Cicora in the Salento Peninsula (southern Italy) have been dated by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Measurements appear to support other archaeological evidence and have shown that 2 distinct phases of human occupation of the site can be identified: the first occupation in the Early Neolithic and a second occupation in the Middle-Late Neolithic. The results provide new information and are a fundamental contribution to the definition of the absolute chronology of the Middle-Late Neolithic in this part of Europe.

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The Early Neolithic Complex on the Tartas-1 Site: Results of the AMS Radiocarbon Dating

Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia ◽

10.17746/1563-0110.2019.47.1.015-022 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

pp. 15-22

Author(s):

V. I. Molodin ◽

D. A. Nenakhov ◽

L. N. Mylnikova ◽

S. Reinhold ◽

E. V. Parkhomchuk ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nuclear Physics ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Forest Steppe ◽

Early Neolithic ◽

Previous Conclusion ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Neolithic Site ◽

Two Samples ◽

Southwestern Siberia

AMS radiocarbon dating was applied to seven samples from Tartas-1, an Early Neolithic site in the Baraba forest-steppe, southwestern Siberia: four from pit 938, one from pit 990, and two from structure 6. Pits had been destined for fermenting fi sh, and contained offerings, such as corpses of animals (fox, hare, wolverine, dog), stone and bone artifacts, and fl at-bottomed clay vessels. On the basis of these fi nds, the Baraba culture was described. The results of the AMS radiocarbon analysis support the previous conclusion regarding the date of the complex — 7th millennium BC. A series of dates generated at the Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry in Mannheim, Germany, for the Neolithic materials from Tartas-1 mostly fall within the 7th millennium, and the same applies to the dates relating to the Neolithic site of Vengerovo-2. The dates for structure 6 from Tartas-1 were generated at the Institute of Nuclear Physics SB RAS in Novosibirsk as well, agreeing with those from the Mannheim Center (for two samples, the results being virtually identical). In sum, the data obtained confi rm the correctness of dating the Early Neolithic complex from Tartas-1 to the 7th millennium BC. The Baraba culture is also dated to this time.

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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of the Type Plainview and Firstview (Paleoindian) Assemblages: The Agony and the Ecstasy

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/2694144 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 64 (3) ◽

pp. 444-454 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Vance T. Holliday ◽

Eileen Johnson ◽

Thomas W. Stafford

Keyword(s):

Amino Acids ◽

Great Plains ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Southern Plains ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Tight Cluster ◽

Bison Antiquus

Plainview and Firstview are two of the principal post-Folsom Paleoindian artifact assemblages on the Great Plains, but good radiometric age control for these artifact styles is relatively poor, due in part to lack of reliable age control on the type collections. This study reports the results of AMS-radiocarbon dating of specific amino acids from Bison antiquus bone associated with the type Plainview and Firstview assemblages from the Plainview and Olsen-Chubbuck sites, respectively. Seven samples of bone and teeth from Plainview produced a surprisingly wide array of ages. As a result, the age of the bone bed and the type Plainview collection remain uncertain, but it is most likely ≥ 10,000 B.P. (but late or post-Folsom) given the dating and stratigraphic relationships at Plainview and other sites. Seven samples of bone from Olsen-Chubbuck yielded a tight cluster of ages averaging ca 9400 B.P., fitting well with other dated Firstview features on the Southern Plains. These results show that much better age control from more sites is needed in order to understand the Paleoindian record. AMS-radiocarbon dating of specific amino acids from bone has revolutionized such issues of chronology in archaeology, but like any other method, it can provide confusing results and must be used in conjunction with other chronometric data.

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The First Neolithic Occupation of La Cova del Randero (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain)

Open Archaeology ◽

10.1515/opar-2020-0206 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 1492-1505

Author(s):

Consuelo Roca de Togores Muñoz ◽

Laura M. Sirvent Cañada ◽

Silvia Martínez Amorós ◽

Olga Gómez Pérez ◽

Virginia Barciela González ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Ovis Aries ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

Early Neolithic ◽

Specific Nature ◽

Environmental Characteristics ◽

Farming Communities ◽

Multidisciplinary Study ◽

Pastoral Communities ◽

Mountain Environment

Abstract The excavations at “Cova del Randero” (Pedreguer, Alicante, Spain) began in 2007 within the programme of archaeological interventions of the Archaeological Museum of Alicante. The cavity, located in one of the valleys that connect the coast with the inland mountains, presents a wide sequence of occupations that begins in the Upper Palaeolithic and continues throughout the different phases of the Neolithic. The results of a multidisciplinary study, carried out in an archaeological context associated with the first Neolithic presence of the cavity, are presented here. This occupation is defined by a unique combustion structure to which a set of artefacts and biofacts are linked. This archaeological context, probably of a specific nature, is related to the first agro-pastoral communities settled in the area. The fireplace is well defined stratigraphically and sedimentologically because of its reddish soil, which corresponds to hunter-gatherer occupation levels of the cavity, and under the greyish sediments that characterise the use of the cave as a fold during the Middle Neolithic. This occupation event was dated both by the associated materials, among which a fragment of cardial ceramic was found, and by radiocarbon dating of a metacarpus of Ovis aries around 5075–4910 cal BC (epicardial Early Neolithic). This data allows us to link the occupation of the cavity at this time with pastoral activity in a medium mountain environment. However, it also allows us to infer the environmental characteristics in which the first farming communities of the mountains of Alicante were developed.

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Absolute Dating of the Virje and Hlebine Sites

10.32028/9781803271026-5 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 92-100

Author(s):

Katarina Botić

Keyword(s):

Environmental Change ◽

Bayesian Model ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Iron Formation ◽

Iron Production ◽

Formation Processes ◽

Residential Areas ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Absolute Dating ◽

Cool Conditions

In this chapter the results of AMS radiocarbon dating of 26 charcoal samples from four sites are discussed. The primary aim was to explore the scope of (dis)continuity of temporally and functionally interconnected types of sites (settlement and iron production workshop). A Bayesian model was created based on the acquired data from excavated sites with three sequences in the model determined. The results show great accordance with the archaeologically based data, with some exceptions that are most probably a result of modelling strategy used. Contemporaneity of all four sites is mostly attested with a possible and very short temporal hiatus around AD 600. Occupation of workshop and residential areas at that time or slightly after may have been linked to the globally attested environmental change during the Bond 1 event when dry and cool conditions prevailed and which could have had an impact on bog iron formation processes.

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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Bones at Arizona

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200011735 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 31 (03) ◽

pp. 231-238 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Austin Long ◽

A T Wilson ◽

R D Ernst ◽

B H Gore ◽

P E Hare

Keyword(s):

Amino Acids ◽

Amino Acid ◽

Preliminary Analysis ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Quantitative Information ◽

Fossil Bone ◽

Bone Material ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Fossil Bones ◽

Extraneous Material

Modern bone contains ca 25% protein material, most of which is collagen. Amino acids separated from collagen isolated from bone are suitable for 14C dating of fossil bone, but attempts to carry out this procedure on bones seriously depleted in protein can yield erroneous 14C dates. Amino-acid analysis of fossil bone gives quantitative information on the degree of preservation of its organic component. Also, the relative abundance of the amino-acid components reveal the degree to which the collagen-like pattern has been altered. Alteration may be caused by addition of extraneous material. A 1mg sample of bone material is sufficient for this preliminary analysis. We have developed a series of acceptance criteria for whether a particular specimen is likely to yield the correct 14C age. 14C dating of fossil bones not seriously depleted in protein is a straightforward procedure and yields reliable dates.

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Chronostratigraphic Sequence of Santuario Della Madonna Cave (Calabria, Southern Italy): AMS Radiocarbon Data from a New Excavation Area

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200045458 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 408-414 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

L Calcagnile ◽

V Tinè ◽

G Quarta ◽

M D'Elia ◽

G Fiorentino ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mass Spectrometry ◽

Bronze Age ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Southern Italy ◽

Statistical Tools ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Cultural Aspects ◽

Radiocarbon Data ◽

Middle Bronze Age ◽

Excavation Area

The Santuario della Madonna Cave, located near Praia a Mare (Cosenza), along the northwestern coast of Calabria (southern Italy), has an impressive stratigraphy, with occupation phases spanning from the late Paleolithic to the advanced phases of the Middle Bronze Age. Recently, a new excavation area has been opened in the cave from which shortlived vegetal remains were sampled and submitted for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating. The aim of this study was to define an accurate chronology of the different cultural aspects and to explore the potentialities resulting from application of advanced statistical tools for 14C data analysis in such a context.

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14C Wiggle-Matching of the B-Tm Tephra, Baitoushan Volcano, China/North Korea

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200046038 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 52 (3) ◽

pp. 933-940 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Shinya Yatsuzuka ◽

Mitsuru Okuno ◽

Toshio Nakamura ◽

Katsuhiko Kimura ◽

Yohei Setoma ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mass Spectrometry ◽

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ◽

North Korea ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Gas Emission ◽

Volcanic Gas ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Eruption Age ◽

The Difference ◽

Volcanic Gas Emission

We performed accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating and wiggle-matching of 2 wood samples from charred trunks of trees (samples A and B) collected from an ignimbrite deposit on the northeastern slope of the Baitoushan Volcano on the border of China and North Korea. The obtained calendar years for the eruption are cal AD 945–960 for sample A and cal AD 859–884 and cal AD 935–963 for sample B in the 2-σ range. These results are unable to determine the precise eruption age. The reason for the difference in reported ages may be due to volcanic gas emission prior to the huge eruption.

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Over 16,000 Years of Fire Frequency Determined from AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Soil Charcoal in an Alluvial Fan at Bear Flat, Northeastern British Columbia

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200038868 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 435-450 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

A J Timothy Jull ◽

Marten Geertsema

Keyword(s):

British Columbia ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Large Scale ◽

Fire Frequency ◽

Alluvial Fan ◽

Before Present ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Soil Charcoal ◽

Large Fires ◽

Millennial Time Scale

We present results of radiocarbon dating of charcoal from paleosols and buried charcoal horizons in a unique sequence, which potentially records the last 36,000 yr, from a fan at Bear Flat, British Columbia (BC) (56°16'51’N, 121°13'39”W). Evidence for forest-fire charcoal is found over the last 13,500 ± 110 14C yr before present (BP) or 16,250 ± 700 cal BP. The study area is located east of the Rocky Mountains in an area that was ice-free at least 13,970 ± 170 14C yr BP (17,450–16,150 cal BP) ago. The latest evidence of fire is during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP). The charcoal ages show a periodicity in large fires on a millennial scale through the Holocene—an average of 4 fires per thousand years. Higher fire frequencies are observed between 2200 to 2800 cal BP, ∼5500 and ∼6000 cal BP, ∼7500 to 8200 cal BP, and 9000 to 10,000 cal BP. These intervals also appear to be times of above-average aggradation of the fan. We conclude that fire frequency is related to large-scale climatic events on a millennial time scale.

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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Tianma-Qucun Site in Shanxi, China

Radiocarbon ◽

10.1017/s0033822200041758 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 43 (2B) ◽

pp. 1109-1114 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Zhiyu Guo ◽

Kexin Liu ◽

Xiangyang Lu ◽

Hongji Ma ◽

Kun Li ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mass Spectrometry ◽

Bayesian Analysis ◽

Accelerator Mass Spectrometry ◽

Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Lower Boundary ◽

Historical Record ◽

Shanxi Province ◽

Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽

Western Zhou ◽

Calibration Program

Tianma-Qucun is the biggest site of Western Zhou Dynasty discovered in Shanxi Province, China. It has been recognized as the early capital of Jin, a vassal state of Western Zhou. The territories were granted to the first Marquis of Jin with the title in the early days of Western Zhou. Bone sample series from the site were radiocarbon-dated by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) and calibrated with the Oxford calibration program OxCal 3.5. Bayesian analysis of the calibrated ages shows that the earliest residents of the Western Zhou came to Tianma-Qucun area in 1020–940 BC and the lower boundary of the Western Zhou is 796–754 BC, which corresponds well to the historical record 770 BC.

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