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Radiocarbon Dating of Neolithic Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G Zaitseva ,
V Skripkin ,
N Kovaliukh ,
G Possnert ,
P Dolukhanov  and
A Vybornov
G Zaitseva*
Affiliation:
Institute for History of Material Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
V Skripkin
Affiliation:
Institute of the Geochemistry of Environment, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
N Kovaliukh
Affiliation:
Institute of the Geochemistry of Environment, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
G Possnert
Affiliation:
University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
P Dolukhanov
Affiliation:
Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
A Vybornov
Affiliation:
State Pedagogical University, Samara, Russia
*
Corresponding author. Email: ganna@mail.wplus.net
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Abstract

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The direct measurement of organic matter included in archaeological pottery may yield a reliable assessment of age. The main problem consists in the identification of possible origins and assessment of distortion for the age of organic inclusions. Our experiments show that shells included in pottery fabrics are strongly influenced by the reservoir effect, which may reach 500 yr or more. Other organic inclusions, such as lake ooze, do not visibly distort the age. The obtained series of radiocarbon dates have been used for the assessing the age of the early stages of pottery manufacture in southern Russia.

Type
Radiocarbon Chronologies of the Neolithic and Metal Ages
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 795 - 801
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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