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Building the Radiocarbon Chronology for the Archaeological Site Ufa-II, Bashkortostan, Russia: Is this the Elusive “Bashkort” of Medieval Sources?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Vladimir A Levchenko  and
Flarit A Sungatov
Vladimir A Levchenko*
Affiliation:
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO), Locked Bag 2001 Kirrawee DC, NSW, 2232 Australia
Flarit A Sungatov
Affiliation:
Academy of Sciences of Republic of Bashkortostan, 15 Kirova St., Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan 450077, Russian Federation
*
Corresponding author. Email: vladimir.levchenko@ansto.gov.au
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Abstract

A suite of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates for the Ufa-II archaeological site in Bashkortostan, Russia, is obtained for the first time. Dating was done on charcoal samples from a sequence of cultural deposits collected during the 2011 digging season. An age-depth chronology is established using the Bayesian deposition General Outlier P_Sequence model. The oldest age for the site at the horizon immediately over the sterile ground was cal AD 137–237 (68% probability), corresponding to the beginning of site occupation. The youngest 14C date found was late 6th to early 7th century cal AD for the extensive planked boardwalks unearthed at the site. The 14C dates are in good agreement with archaeological determinations based on discovered artifacts.

Type
Archaeology of Eurasia and Africa
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 55 , Issue 3: Proceedings of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 2) , 2013 , pp. 1278 - 1285
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Copyright © 2013 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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