Issue 2 (59)
| NEW RADIOCARBON DATES OF THE MESOLITHIC — EARLY IRON AGE OF THE TRANS-URALS | |||
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| Year | 2018 | Number | 2(59) |
| Pages | 124-134 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 351.853.1 | BBK | 79.05 |
| Authors | Chairkina Natalia M. Kuzmin Yaroslav V. |
Topic | ARCHAEOLOGICAL MOSAIC |
| Summary | New radiocarbon dates for prehistoric cultural complexes of the Trans-Urals are introduced in this paper. They include 71 determination of radiocarbon age for different epochs (Mesolithic — Early Iron Age). The following objects were dated: habitation sites Porkovsk-Uralsky VII, Elnichnoe 1A and Shuvakish; grottoes Burmantovsky and Zhilische Sokola; burial platforms Skvortsovskaya gora V and Shigir fortress; and sites Beregovaya XIII (Filin Ostrov), and pits of the Gorbunovo peatbog VI and IVA. The new AMS dates provided for a confident determination of the age of certain unique artifacts. They complemented the data on the time of existence of the Mesolithic (ca. 6800–9300 BC) and the Neolithic (ca. 4100–6500 BC) sites, shifted down the Eneolithic period (ca. 2500 (2800?)–4000 (4300?) BC) and determined the time frame of the existence of the early Bronze Age complexes (in the interval of 1970–2570 BC) in the Trans-Urals. The proposed chronology of the archaeological periods in the Trans-Urals correlated in general with the chronological scales for the Urals region. However, a number of issues still remain debatable despite the obtained array of new information. One of such issues is the problem of the upper boundary of the Mesolithic and the lower boundary of the Neolithic, as well as the fact of a prolonged existence of certain types of the Neolithic pottery, which requires an adequate assessment and, possibly, a more precise attribution of the complexes. It is interesting to note that a larger number of the dates obtained for the Eneolithic referred to its earlier stage while no such dates were available for its final period. Based on the analysis of the new materials, a series of radiocarbon dates were obtained for the first time for the early Bronze Age in the Trans-Urals the lower boundary of which does not yet correlate with the conditional upper boundary of the Eneolithic. | ||
| Keywords | Trans-Urals, radiocarbon dating, archaeological sites, periodization and chronology of archaeological epochs, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Eneolithic, Bronze Age, Early Iron Age | ||
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