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14C Chronology of Burial Grounds of the Andronovo Period (Middle Bronze Age) in Baraba Forest Steppe, Western Siberia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

V I Molodin ,
Z V Marchenko ,
Y V Kuzmin ,
A E Grishin ,
M van Strydonck  and
L A Orlova
V I Molodin
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 17, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Z V Marchenko*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 17, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
Y V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptyug Ave. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
A E Grishin
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lavrentiev Ave. 17, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
M van Strydonck
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Jubelpark 1, Brussels 1000, Belgium
L A Orlova
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptyug Ave. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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This paper focuses on the chronology of Middle Bronze Age complexes in the Baraba forest steppe (western Siberia). Three sites were radiocarbon dated, Stary Tartas 4, Sopka 2, and Tartas 1. The Late Krotovo culture was dated to the 18–19th centuries BC, the Andronovo complex (Fedorovo stage) to the 15–18th centuries BC, and the Mixed Andronovo complex dated to the 15–17th centuries BC. These values are some 300–500 yr older than previously thought, and the new results are consistent with 14C dates of the Andronovo cultural complex in northern Eurasia. Based on these data, the 15th century BC is the upper chronological limit of the Andronovo period.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 3-4 , 2012 , pp. 737 - 747
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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