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Radiocarbon Dating Sites of Northwest Russia and Latvia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

G. I. Zaitseva  and
S. G. Popov
G. I. Zaitseva
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya 18, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
S. G. Popov
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of the History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences, Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya 18, St. Petersburg 191186 Russia
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We describe applications of radiocarbon dating used for establishing a chronology of archaeological sites of the Novgorod region at the end of the first millennium ad. We have 14C-dated known-age tree rings from sites in Latvia and ancient Novgorod, northwest Russia, as well as charcoal and wood from Novgorod. Calendar ages of 14C-dated tree rings span the interval, ad 765–999. We used the Groningen calibration program, CAL15 (van der Plicht 1993) to calibrate 14C ages to calendar years. Comparisons between 14C results and archaeological data show good agreement, and enable us to narrow the calendar interval of calibrated 14C determinations.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , 1994 , pp. 377 - 389
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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