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Chronology of the Burial Finds from Scythian Monuments in Southern Siberia and Central Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

A. A. Sementsov ,
G. I. Zaitseva ,
J. Görsdorf ,
A. Nagler ,
H. Parzinger ,
N. A. Bokovenko ,
K. V. Chugunov  and
L. M. Lebedeva
A. A. Sementsov
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
G. I. Zaitseva
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
J. Görsdorf
Affiliation:
German Institute of Archaeology, Euro-Asia Department, PO Box 330014, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
A. Nagler
Affiliation:
German Institute of Archaeology, Euro-Asia Department, PO Box 330014, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
H. Parzinger
Affiliation:
German Institute of Archaeology, Euro-Asia Department, PO Box 330014, D-14191 Berlin, Germany
N. A. Bokovenko
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
K. V. Chugunov
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
L. M. Lebedeva
Affiliation:
The Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya nab. 18, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
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We present here new radiocarbon dates for the different barrows (burial mounds) of the nomadic tribes of the Scythian period in the Khakassia and Tuva regions (Central Asia). The time scale of these barrows is compared with the elite barrows of the Sayan-Altai. In agreement with archaeological evidence, some barrows in Khakassia are chronologically close in time to the Arzhan barrow. The first 14C dates produced for the barrows from the Tuva region belong to a later Scythian period, compared with the elite Arzhan barrow. We determined the final stage of the barrow construction, but to establish the starting time, more dates are necessary (both by dendrochronology and 14C).

Type
Part 2: Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 40 , Issue 2: 16th International Radiocarbon Conference June 16-20, 1997 Part 2: Applications, Conference Editors: Willem G. Mook Johannes van der Plicht , 1997 , pp. 713 - 720
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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