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Absolute Dating of Copper and Early Bronze Age Levels at the Eponymous Archaeological Site Bubanj (Southeastern Serbia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Aleksandar Bulatović  and
Marc Vander Linden
Aleksandar Bulatović*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Prehistory, Kneza Mihaila 35/IV, Belgrade 11000, Serbia
Marc Vander Linden
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, United Kingdom
*
*Corresponding author. Email: abulatovic3@gmail.com.
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Abstract

This paper reports the first radiocarbon (14C) dates obtained for the Eneolithic/Bronze Age site of Bubanj, Serbia. Despite featuring prominently in the existing typo-chronological schemes for southeastern Europe, the history of research and recent large-scale destruction of the site had prevented so far the acquisition of samples from secure archaeological contexts. We fill this documentary gap by presenting 10 new 14C dates, covering the late 5th, 4th, and 3rd millennia cal BC. These dates are compared to the existing documentation from the literature, in order to assess the placement of Bubanj within its wider archaeological context.

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AMS datingBayesian modelingCopper Ageradiocarbon AMS datingsettlement

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Radiocarbon , Volume 59 , Issue 4 , August 2017 , pp. 1047 - 1065
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© 2017 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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