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Refining the Sarliève Paleolake (France) Neolithic Chronology by Combining Several Radiocarbon Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Christine Hatté ,
Jean-Gabriel Bréhéret ,
Jérémy Jacob ,
Jacqueline Argant  and
Jean-Jacques Macaire
Christine Hatté*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, UMR CEA-CNRS-UVSQ 8212, Domaine du CNRS, bâtiment 12, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Jean-Gabriel Bréhéret
Affiliation:
Université François-Rabelais de Tours, Laboratoire des GéoHydrosystèmes Continentaux, E.A 6293 GéHCo, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Parc Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
Jérémy Jacob
Affiliation:
Institut des Sciences de la Terre d'Orléans, Université d'Orléans, ISTO, UMR 7327, 45071, Orléans, France; CNRS/INSU, ISTO, UMR 7327, 45071 Orléans, France; BRGM, ISTO, UMR 7327, BP 36009, 45060 Orléans, France
Jacqueline Argant
Affiliation:
LAMPEA-UMR 7269-CNRS, MMSH, 13094 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 2, France
Jean-Jacques Macaire
Affiliation:
Université François-Rabelais de Tours, Laboratoire des GéoHydrosystèmes Continentaux, E.A 6293 GéHCo, Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Parc Grandmont, 37200 Tours, France
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2Corresponding author. Email: Christine.Hatte@lsce.ipsl.fr.
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Abstract

Dating sedimentary series spanning the past few tens of thousands of years is often problematic due to the quality of radiocarbon data obtained from organic matter (OM), including bulk OM. This problem recently arose when establishing the chronology of a sediment infill at the Sarliève paleolake (French Massif Central). In the studied section of the cores that covers the Neolithic, Ruppia seeds yielded consistent ages for the lower part (7195 ± 75 to 6050 ± 60 yr BP). A reservoir age of 82 ± 42 14C yr was estimated through the comparison of ages derived from charcoal, Ruppia seeds, and charophyte oogonia sampled on a single level. The upper part of the cores lacks macrofossils and bulk OM dating yields unusable data because of a significant contribution of aged OM derived from the Oligocene substratum in the catchment. We therefore performed dating of lipids extracted from the sediments. The age of the lipids was 2880 ± 30 yr BP near the top of the section, i.e. much younger than the age estimated from previous correlations based on pollen assemblages. These new data call into question previous paleoenvironmental interpretations. The combined dating methodology used for the Neolithic series of Sarliève is a rather uncommon approach that may help to refine chronologies of Holocene sedimentary series.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 55 , Issue 2: Proceedings of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2) , 2013 , pp. 979 - 992
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Copyright © 2013 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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