Aquatic Radiocarbon Reservoir Offsets in the Southeastern Baltic

Piličiauskas, Gytis; Heron, C.

doi:10.2458/azu_rc.57.18447

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“…However, the bulk IRMS results show rather depleted 13 C and relatively (-29.56 and 10.53 per mil respectively), which is consistent with a freshwater fish origin (see e.g. Heron et al 2015).…”

Section: Narva Pottery Chronology and Lipid Analysis Of Kääpa Sherdssupporting

confidence: 64%

Late Mesolithic Narva Stage in Estonia: Pottery, Settlement Types and Chronology

Крийска¹,

Oras²,

Lõugas³

et al. 2017

Estonian J. Archaeol.

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This paper gives a systematized overview of different Narva stage sites in Estonia, describing their artefactual and archaeozoological material, and environmental conditions. We demonstrate the diversity of Narva stage settlement types (sites on coastal river estuaries, coast, coastal lagoons, inland river banks and shores of inland lakes) and economy (marine, terrestrial/inland aquatic and mixed subsistence) in the region. A further site-based description of Narva pottery is also provided in order to exemplify the similarities and differences of this earliest pottery type in the Eastern Baltic. We also present a comprehensive list of all currently available Narva stage radiocarbon dates from Estonia and Ingermanland (north-western Russia) according to which the Narva-type pottery in the northern part of its distribution area dates to the period c. 5200-3900 cal BC. Additionally, the issues of dating food crust, especially the high risk of reservoir effect offsets, are emphasised. We carried out a comparative study dating contemporaneous food crusts and plant remains and conducting lipid residue analysis employing combined methods of gas chromatographymass spectrometry (GC-MS) and isotope ratio mass spectrometry (GC-C-IRMS, EA-IRMS). The results demonstrate the implications and importance of characterising lipid residues so that samples with reservoir correction can at least be identified.

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Section: Narva Pottery Chronology and Lipid Analysis Of Kääpa Sherdssupporting

confidence: 64%

Late Mesolithic Narva Stage in Estonia: Pottery, Settlement Types and Chronology

Крийска¹,

Oras²,

Lõugas³

et al. 2017

Estonian J. Archaeol.

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“… Radiocarbon dates for Spiginas1 and Donkalnis7 were first reported in ref. 28 , radiocarbon dates for Spiginas2, Donkalnis6, Kretuonas5, Gyvakarai, and Turlojiškė1 were first reported in ref. 30 *Y-haplogroups are based on the most downstream defining mutation covered and might not reflect the true haplogroup, see Supplementary Note 3 **Data merged with published data from this individual [ 22 ] …”

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The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region

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While the series of events that shaped the transition between foraging societies and food producers are well described for Central and Southern Europe, genetic evidence from Northern Europe surrounding the Baltic Sea is still sparse. Here, we report genome-wide DNA data from 38 ancient North Europeans ranging from ~9500 to 2200 years before present. Our analysis provides genetic evidence that hunter-gatherers settled Scandinavia via two routes. We reveal that the first Scandinavian farmers derive their ancestry from Anatolia 1000 years earlier than previously demonstrated. The range of Mesolithic Western hunter-gatherers extended to the east of the Baltic Sea, where these populations persisted without gene-flow from Central European farmers during the Early and Middle Neolithic. The arrival of steppe pastoralists in the Late Neolithic introduced a major shift in economy and mediated the spread of a new ancestry associated with the Corded Ware Complex in Northern Europe

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“…However, this is probably an underestimation as the difference may be as high as c. 300 years (Boethius et al 2017). The MRE during the Neolithic period in the southeastern Baltic was estimated to 190 ± 43 and the FRE to 320-510 and above (Piličiauskas and Heron 2015). The MRE in modern time was estimated to 200 to 300 years in the surroundings of Gotland by Lougheed et al (2013).…”

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Old bones or early graves? Megalithic burial sequences in southern Sweden based on 14C datings

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Sjögren

Storå

2020

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Megalithic tombs have since long been a focus of debate within the archaeological research field, not least regarding their emergence, use life and the various bursts of building activity in different regions and periods. The aim of this study is to investigate the temporal span of the main burial sequences in the conventional megalithic grave types of southern Sweden, with special focus on the less studied gallery graves. In Scandinavia, megalithic tombs are divided into three main types: dolmens, passage graves and gallery graves. Here, this prevailing typological seriation was tested. The study was based on 374 14C dates from unique individuals selected from 66 tombs. The form, layout and dating of the different types of tombs were studied in order to examine regional and chronological variation in the use of megaliths. By comparing sum plots, KDE models, individual 14C dates and typology of artefacts, the existing chronologies were evaluated. The 14C dates from dolmens and passage graves more or less agreed with the conventional chronology, while the presence of early skeletons in gallery graves was unexpected. The results indicate that megalithic graves appeared more or less simultaneously in southern Sweden and were first used around 3500-3300 cal BC. The dolmens and passage graves were used contemporaneously, although the proportion of early dates supports a slightly earlier start of the dolmens. Some of the gallery graves may also have been introduced at this time, although reburial of old bones cannot be ruled out.

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Aquatic Radiocarbon Reservoir Offsets in the Southeastern Baltic

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Cited by 39 publications

References 22 publications

Late Mesolithic Narva Stage in Estonia: Pottery, Settlement Types and Chronology

Late Mesolithic Narva Stage in Estonia: Pottery, Settlement Types and Chronology

The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region

Old bones or early graves? Megalithic burial sequences in southern Sweden based on 14C datings

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