Accurate compound-specific 14C dating of archaeological pottery vessels

Autor: Ivo van Wijk, Alistair Barclay, Christian Jeunesse, Alex Bayliss, Marta Krueger, Philippe Lefranc, Timothy D J Knowles, Julie Dunne, Savino di Lernia, Andy Daykin, Jessica Smyth, Rocco Rotunno, Erich Claßen, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Mélanie Roffet-Salque, Marek Z. Barański, Steve Minnitt, Pieter van de Velde, Anthony Denaire, Jonathan Cotton, Toby Gillard, Richard P. Evershed, Emmanuelle Casanova, Michael Ilett, Bryony Coles
Přispěvatelé: University of Bristol [Bristol], Historic England, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk, Université de Bourgogne (UB), Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés [Dijon] (ARTeHiS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC), Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée - Europe (ARCHIMEDE), Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza' = Sapienza University [Rome], Cotswold Archaeology, LVR-State Service for Archaeological Heritage - Bonn, University of Exeter, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), Trajectoires - UMR 8215, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM), Somerset County Museum - Taunton Castle, Dipartimento di Ingegneria informatica automatica e gestionale (DIAG), Archaeological Research Leiden, Leiden University, Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA), Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA) Mulhouse - Colmar (Université de Haute-Alsace (UHA))-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Jazyk: angličtina
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Zdroj: Nature
Nature, 2020, 580, pp.506-510. ⟨10.1038/s41586-020-2178-z⟩
Casanova, E J A, Knowles, T D J, Bayliss, A, Dunne, J B, Baranski, M Z, Denaire, A, Lefranc, P, di Lernia, S, Roffet-Salque, M, Smyth, J, Barclay, A, Gillard, T, Claβe, E, Coles, B, Ilett, M, Jeunesse, C, Krueger, M, Marciniak, A, Minnitt, S, Rotunno, R, van de Velde, P, van Wijk, I, Cotton, J, Daykin, A & Evershed, R P 2020, ' Accurate compound-specific 14C dating of archaeological pottery vessels ', Nature, vol. 580, pp. 506–510 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2178-z
ISSN: 1476-4687
0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2178-z
Popis: Pottery is one of the most commonly recovered artefacts from archaeological sites. Despite more than a century of relative dating based on typology and seriation1, accurate dating of pottery using the radiocarbon dating method has proven extremely challenging owing to the limited survival of organic temper and unreliability of visible residues2–4. Here we report a method to directly date archaeological pottery based on accelerator mass spectrometry analysis of 14C in absorbed food residues using palmitic (C16:0) and stearic (C18:0) fatty acids purified by preparative gas chromatography5–8. We present accurate compound-specific radiocarbon determinations of lipids extracted from pottery vessels, which were rigorously evaluated by comparison with dendrochronological dates9,10 and inclusion in site and regional chronologies that contained previously determined radiocarbon dates on other materials11–15. Notably, the compound-specific dates from each of the C16:0 and C18:0 fatty acids in pottery vessels provide an internal quality control of the results6 and are entirely compatible with dates for other commonly dated materials. Accurate radiocarbon dating of pottery vessels can reveal: (1) the period of use of pottery; (2) the antiquity of organic residues, including when specific foodstuffs were exploited; (3) the chronology of sites in the absence of traditionally datable materials; and (4) direct verification of pottery typochronologies. Here we used the method to date the exploitation of dairy and carcass products in Neolithic vessels from Britain, Anatolia, central and western Europe, and Saharan Africa. Using lipid residues absorbed in potsherds, the ages of pottery from various archaeological sites are determined and validated using sites for which the dates are well known from other methods.
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