Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-kw2vx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-08T00:14:25.491Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Radiocarbon and Thermoluminescence Dating of Prehistoric Sites in Hungary and Yugoslavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Lázár Benkö ,
Ferenc Horváth ,
Nada Horvatinčić  and
Bogomil Obelić
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Direct dating by simultaneous independent physical methods is of particular interest to prehistoric archaeology in central Europe. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence measurements were made to date two tell settlements in the Carpathian Basin: the Late Neolithic site at Gorzsa (southeast Hungary) and the Eneolithic site of Vučedol (east Croatia, Yugoslavia). Samples from Gorzsa span from the Szakalhát to the Proto-Tiszapolgár periods, while most important cultural layers from the Vučedol site belong to the Baden, Kostolac, and Vučedol cultures. By including some of our earlier dates from the Tiszapolgár-Basatanya Copper Age site, a chronological framework, spanning the period from Late Neolithic to Early Bronze Age can be established. The quartz inclusion technique was used for TL dating of pottery. Beta and gamma dose rates were determined by TL dosimetry. Allowances were made for supralinearity, water content, and beta attenuation in quartz grains. The TL ages range from 1900 to 4300 BC and 3600 to 2900 BC, for the Gorzsa and Vučedol sites, respectively.

Type
IV. Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 992 - 1002
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

References

Aitken, M J, 1985, Thermoluminescence dating: London, Academic Press.Google Scholar
Benkö, L, 1983, TL properties of individual quartz grains: PACT, v 9, p 175–181.Google Scholar
Benkö, L and Bognár-Kutzián, I, 1988, Investigation of two Copper Age cultures by means of TL dating: Nuclear Tracks, v 14, p 287–294.Google Scholar
Bognár-Kutzián, I, 1963, The Copper Age cemetery of Tiszapolgár-Basatanya: Budapest, Hungarian Acad Sci. Google Scholar
Bognár-Kutzián, I and Csongor, É, 1987, New results of radiocarbon dating of archaeological finds in Hungary, in Pécsi, M and Kordos, L, eds, Holocene environment in Hungary, INQUA cong, 12th, Proc, Ottawa, Canada: Geog Research Inst, Hungarian Acad Sci.Google Scholar
Csongor, É, Bognár-Kutzián, I, Szabó, I and Hertelendi, E, 1983, Radiocarbon dating of Holocene bone samples in Hungary: PACT, v 8, p 385–390.Google Scholar
Fleming, S J, 1970, Thermoluminescence dating: refinement of the quartz inclusion method: Archaeometry, v 12, p 133–147.Google Scholar
Gimbutas, M, 1980, The Kurgan wave (c 3400–3200 BC) into Europe and the following transformation of culture: Jour Indoeuropean Studies, v 8, 273–315.Google Scholar
Haskell, E H, 1983, Beta dose-rate determination: preliminary results from an interlaboratory calibration of techniques: PACT, v 9, p 77–85.Google Scholar
Horváth, F, 1982, The Late Neolithic stratum of the Gorzsa tell: Archeologiai Értesítö (Budapest), v 109, p 201–222.Google Scholar
Horvatinčić, N, Obelić, B, Srdoč, D, Durman, A, Benkö, L and Sliepčević, A, in press, Radiocarbon and TL dating of the Eneolithic site Vučedol in East Croatia, Yugoslavia, in Internatl symposium, Archaeology and 14C, 2nd, Proc: PACT.Google Scholar
Horvatinčić, N, Srdoč, D, Obelić, B and Sliepčević, A, 1973, Radiocarbon dating of fossil bones; development of a new technique for sample processing, in Mook, W G and Waterbolk, H T, eds, Internatl symposium, 14C and Archaeology, 1st, Proc: PACT, v 8, p 377–384.Google Scholar
Longin, R, 1971, New method of collagen extraction for radiocarbon dating: Nature, v 230, p 231–242.Google Scholar
Mejdahl, v, 1979, Thermoluminescence dating: beta-dose attenuation in quartz grains: Archaeometry, v 21, p 61–73.Google Scholar
Neustupný, E 1968, Absolute chronology of the Neolithic and Eneolithic periods in central and south-east Europe: Slovenska archeol, v XVI–1, p 19–60.Google Scholar
Protsch, , Rand Weninger, B, 1984, Frankfurt radiocarbon dates I: Radiocarbon, v 26, no. 2, p 185–195.Google Scholar
Srdoč, D, Breyer, B and Sliepčević, A 1971, Ruder Bošković radiocarbon measurements I: Radiocarbon, v 13, no. 1, p 135–140.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Srdoč, D, Sliepčević, A and Breyer, B 1971, Radiocarbon dating of archaeologic samples of biological origin: Rad, Yugoslavian Acad Sci & Arts, v 349, p 109–157.Google Scholar
Stuiver, M and Polach, H A, 1977, Discussion: Reporting of 14C data: Radiocarbon v 19 no 3, p 355–363.Google Scholar
Stuiver, M and Reimer, P J, 1986, A computer program for radiocarbon age calibration in Stuiver, M and Kra, R S, eds, Internatl 14C conf, 12th, Proc: Radiocarbon v 28, no. 2B, p 1022–1030.Google Scholar
Valladas, G and Valladas, H, 1983, A variant of the thermoluminescence technique for beta-ray dosimetry: PACT, v 6, p 73–76.Google Scholar
Zimmerman, D W, 1971, Thermoluminescent dating using fine grains from pottery Archaeometry, v 13, p 29–52.Google Scholar