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Radiocarbon Dating of Barrows of the Pazyryk, Karakoba, and Bystrianka Cultures from the Manzherok Region, Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2017

Andriey P Borodovskiy ,
Marek Krąpiec  and
Łukasz Oleszczak
Andriey P Borodovskiy
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, 17 Ac. Lavrentieva Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Marek Krąpiec*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Geology, Geophysics and Environmental Protection, AGH – University of Science and Technology, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Łukasz Oleszczak
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Jagiellonian University, Gołębia 11, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
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*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

This paper presents radiocarbon (14C) dating of Scythian period sites discovered in Northern Altai, Russia, in the 1990s, including large, unlooted barrow cemeteries in the Manzherok region. The results indicate that barrows attributed to the Karakoba culture may represent a long time span from the beginning of the 9th century BC until the beginning of 1st century BC, while those linked with the North Pazyryk culture generally keep within the Scythian period: from the beginning of the 5th century BC to the late 1st century AD. 14C analysis has confirmed the viability of traditional archaeological dating and the contemporaneity of barrows belonging to various cultural traditions (North Pazyryk, Karakoba), and also allowed correlating the horizons of burials to the seismic phenomena observed at the site.

Keywords

radiocarbon datingPazyrykKarakoba and Bystrianka culturesChultukov LogNorthern Altai Mountains
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Radiocarbon , Volume 59 , Special Issue 5: 8th International Symposium, Edinburgh, 27 June – 1 July, 2016 Part 1 of 2 , October 2017 , pp. 1263 - 1274
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© 2017 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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Selected Papers from the 8th Radiocarbon & Archaeology Symposium, Edinburgh, UK, 27 June–1 July 2016

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