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Radiocarbon Chronology of Early Medieval Archaeological Sites in Northwestern Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

S. G. Popov ,
Yu. S. Svezhentsev  and
G. I. Zaitseva
S. G. Popov
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 192041 Russia
Yu. S. Svezhentsev
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 192041 Russia
G. I. Zaitseva
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, St. Petersburg Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 192041 Russia
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A reliable archaelogical chronology for medieval sites in northwestern Russia depends in part on a refined regional calibration scale for 14C dates. We present results of dates on tree-ring series from Novgorod that show a systematic discrepancy from European calibration curves, and that underline the need for more extensive 14C dating as the basis of an extended calibration curve for the region.

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Archaeology
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Radiocarbon , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , 1993 , pp. 487 - 493
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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