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AMS Radiocarbon Dates of Kurgans Located On the Ust'-Yurt Plateau, Uzbekistan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Soren Blau  and
Vadim Yagodin
Soren Blau*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Flinders University. Also: The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine, 57–83 Kavanagh St, Southbank, Victoria 3006, Australia
Vadim Yagodin
Affiliation:
Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Nukus, Uzbekistan
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Recent osteological analyses of archaeological human skeletal remains from the Ust'-Yurt Plateau, Uzbekistan, provided the opportunity to obtain samples for radiocarbon dating. The results of 18 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates are presented in this paper and provide the first absolute dates for late prehistoric and early historic archaeological sites in Uzbekistan. The AMS dates suggest that most sites are earlier than have been traditionally thought based on relative dating using artifact typologies.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , 2005 , pp. 235 - 241
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Copyright © 2005 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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