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Radiocarbon Chronology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Aeneolithic, and Bronze Age Sites in the Trans-Urals (Russia): A General Framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

Natalia M Chairkina ,
Yaroslav V Kuzmin  and
Gregory W L Hodgins
Natalia M Chairkina*
Affiliation:
Institute of History & Archaeology, Urals Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg 620026, Russia
Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology & Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia; also Tomsk State University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
Gregory W L Hodgins
Affiliation:
Arizona AMS Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0081, USA
*
*Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

The chronology of the Mesolithic, Neolithic, Aeneolithic, and Bronze Age sites in the Trans-Urals (Russia) was studied, and a framework for previously established cultural complexes is suggested based on 153 radiocarbon dates. In this new chronological model, the Mesolithic is dated to ~10,000–6500 cal BC; the Neolithic complexes exist at ~6500–3800 cal BC; the Aeneolithic is dated to ~4300–2800 cal BC; the Early Bronze Age spans ~2500–2100 cal BC; and the Late Bronze Age can be preliminary assigned to ~1600–1100 cal BC.

Keywords

radiocarbon datingEurasiaTrans-Uralsprehistoric periodchronology
Type
Puzzles in Archaeological Chronologies
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 59 , Special Issue 2: Proceedings of the 22nd International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2) , April 2017 , pp. 505 - 518
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© 2016 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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Footnotes

Selected Papers from the 2015 Radiocarbon Conference, Dakar, Senegal, 16–20 November 2015

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