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Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Dating of Neolithic Cemeteries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

H Plug ,
J van der Plicht  and
P M M G Akkermans
H Plug
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
J van der Plicht*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Groningen, Netherlands
P M M G Akkermans
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Abstract

Late Neolithic graves excavated at Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, have been dated by radiocarbon. This series of 46 human bone dates represents a sequence of cemeteries that is analyzed by Bayesian methodology. The dates show continuous use of the northeastern slope of the mound as a burial ground throughout the Initial Pottery Neolithic to the Halaf period.

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Chronology
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Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , 2014 , pp. 543 - 554
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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