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Dating of the Tashtyk Cultural Remains from the Oglakhty Burial Ground (Southern Siberia)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G I Zaitseva ,
S V Pankova ,
S S Vasiliev ,
V A Dergachev ,
E M Scott ,
A A Sementsov ,
H Jungner  and
E Sonninen
G I Zaitseva*
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
S V Pankova
Affiliation:
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
S S Vasiliev
Affiliation:
The A.F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
V A Dergachev
Affiliation:
The A.F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
E M Scott
Affiliation:
Glasgow University, Department of Statistics, Glasgow, Scotland
A A Sementsov
Affiliation:
Institute for the History of Material Culture, St. Petersburg, Russia
H Jungner
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
E Sonninen
Affiliation:
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
*
Corresponding author. Email: ganna@mail.wplus.net
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The present research is focused on the dating of the Oglakhty burial ground, the key site of stage I of the Tashtyk culture. Despite the numerous well-preserved burials of that type investigated at the Oglakhty complexes, their chronological position has remained unclear. From the early 20th century until the present, 2 different time periods had been identified for the Tashtyk burials: (1) from the 1st century BC until the 1st century AD and (2) from the 1st until the 2nd century AD. New data obtained in the 1990s suggested a different age for Tashtyk burials, namely the 3rd–4th centuries AD. This considerable shift in chronology needed to be checked with independent data. The chronological position of one of the Oglakhty burials, tomb 4, has been investigated with the use of wiggle-matching, applied to wooden logs used in the construction of tomb 4. The resulting dates for this burial strongly suggest its age as being limited to the 3rd–4th centuries AD, which is corroborated by the archaeological dates of the imported artifacts found in the grave and which is in agreement with the chronological position of the Oglakhty site, as proposed by previous investigations.

Type
14C Chronologies, Dendrochronology, Wiggle-Matching, and Calibration Tools
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , 2009 , pp. 423 - 431
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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