Evaluation of radiocarbon dates from the Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer cemetery Khuzhir-Nuge XIV, Lake Baikal, Siberia

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• 作者：Andrzej Weber ; Hugh G. McKenzie ; Roelf Beukens and Olga I. Goriunova
• 关键词：Siberia ; Lake Baikal ; Neolithic ; Bronze Age ; Hunter-gatherers ; Radiocarbon dating ; Collagen yields ; Mortuary ritual
• 刊名：Journal of Archaeological Science
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：32
• 期：10
• 页码：1481-1500
• 全文大小：731 K

文摘

A data set of 87 radiocarbon determinations obtained for the Bronze Age Khuzhir-Nuge XIV cemetery in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia is analyzed from the perspective of data quality and within the local archaeological context. Bone preservation, expressed in terms of collagen yields, is a very important factor affecting both the accuracy and precision of ¹⁴C dates and, therefore, publication of this information should be adopted as a required standard. According to the calibrated high-collagen dates, after a single Serovo interment the cemetery was used continuously by Glazkovo peoples for up to 700 years (2700–2000 BC), and 70 % of all burials were interred within a relatively short peak period between approximately 2500 and 2300 BC. The extensive radiocarbon data from KN XIV allow for the re-evaluation of existing models and perspectives on the place of the Glazkovo culture within the Cis-Baikal Neolithic and Bronze Age.