Methodological Implications of New Radiocarbon Dates from the Early Holocene Site of Körtik Tepe, Southeast Anatolia
| Autor: | Katleen Deckers, Bernhard Weninger, Kurt W. Alt, Simone Riehl, Aytaç Coşkun, Marion Benz, Vecihi Özkaya, Irka Hajdas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology Series (stratigraphy) Epipaleolithic 060102 archaeology Calibration (statistics) 06 humanities and the arts 01 natural sciences law.invention Paleontology law Period (geology) General Earth and Planetary Sciences 0601 history and archaeology Younger Dryas Radiocarbon dating Stratigraphy (archaeology) Holocene Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1945-5755 0033-8222 |
| Popis: | One of the greatest challenges of contemporary archaeology is to synthesize the large amount of radiocarbon and archaeological data into a useful dialogue. For the late Epipaleolithic and the Early Neolithic of the Near East, many14C ages have been published without precise stratigraphic documentation. Consequently, for archaeological age models we often must use some more elementary approaches, such as probabilistic summation of calibrated ages. The stratigraphy of Körtik Tepe allows us for the first time to study an extended series of14C ages of the earliest Holocene. In particular, we are able to analyze the data according to stratigraphic position within a well-documented profile. However, because of a plateau in the14C age calibration curve at the transition from the Younger Dryas to the Early Holocene, dates of this period can be interpreted only if an extended sequence of dates is available. Due to problems remaining in the calibration procedure, the best way to achieve an interpretation is to compare the results of different14C calibration software. In the present paper, we use the results of the calibration programs OxCal and CalPal. This approach has important implications for future age modeling, in particular for the question of how to date the transition from the Epipaleolithic to the PPNA precisely and accurately. |
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