The integration of chronological and archaeological information to date building construction: an example from Shetland, Scotland, UK

Outram, Zoe; Batt, C. M; Rhodes, E. J.; Dockrill, Stephen J.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2010.06.018

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“…This method dates the most recent exposure of a mineral grain to sunlight, effectively fixing the time of burial. It is increasingly used to date sediments associated with archaeological structures such as stone rows and other installations where organic matter or artefacts are lacking (Porat et al 2006;Outram et al 2010;Feathers 2012). In the limestone terrain of the 'Uvda Valley, the only source of quartz is dust brought by seasonal strong winds.…”

Section: Osl Datingmentioning

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Fourth-millennium-BC ‘leopard traps’ from the Negev Desert (Israel)

Porat¹,

Avner

Holzer

et al. 2013

Antiquity

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Stone-built installations known as ‘leopard traps’ are found throughout the deserts of the Middle East. They have generally been considered to be recent in date, and to have been built by Bedouin or other local communities to trap carnivores that threatened their flocks. But how much older might they be? Survey in the hyper-arid ‘Uvda Valley of the southern Negev Desert in Israel discovered 23 ‘leopard traps’, 19 of them clustered in a relatively small area. This study describes the architecture and function of these structures and presents the first optically stimulated luminescence ages for two of them. These results demonstrate that the traps are ancient and were already in use before the late fourth millennium BC, not long after the adoption of herding by the desert dwellers.

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Section: Osl Datingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fourth-millennium-BC ‘leopard traps’ from the Negev Desert (Israel)

Porat¹,

Avner

Holzer

et al. 2013

Antiquity

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“…As an alternative, we apply luminescence dating to sediments beneath the rocks. There have been attempts to date soils beneath rocks on an ordinal scale based on degree of weathering (White 1998), but luminescence can achieve ratio-scale calendar estimates and has been applied in similar contexts in the Near East (Holzer et al 2010;Porat et al 2006), Europe (Outram et al 2010;Vafiadou et al 2007), and South America (Rink and Bartoll 2005). Luminescence dating of the underside of rocks and dating sediments underneath the rocks both have their own sets of problems and should be considered complementary approaches, rather than one being better than the other.…”

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Dating Stone Alignments by Luminescence

Zedeño¹,

Todd²,

Aaberg³

2015

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Stone alignments, including tipi rings and drive lines, are abundant on the northern Plains and adjacent Rocky Mountains, but they have been notoriously difficult to date. This paper applies luminescence dating to sediments directly underneath the rocks to estimate the age of placement of the rock. This is based on the assumption that before the rock was emplaced, turbation processes brought sufficient grains to the surface, where sunlight reset the signal. Single-grain dating of potassium feldspars allowed isolation of these original well-bleached grains, which by now have built up a signal because the rock prevents transfer to the surface. Plotting the number of original well-bleached grains with depth showed that these grains were concentrated just under the rock and decreased with depth. This is what would be predicted if the assumption is true. Dates were derived from several samples from Kutoyis in north central Montana, from Whitewater in eastern Montana, and from several sites in northwestern Wyoming. Many samples from Kutoyis and Wyoming dated to the last 600 years, but some samples from both places were more than 2,000 years old. The Whitewater features also dated to around 2,000 years ago. The ages are consistent with the cultural history of the areas.

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Luminescence Dating of Archaeological Sediments

Feathers

2015

Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods

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The integration of chronological and archaeological information to date building construction: an example from Shetland, Scotland, UK

Cited by 9 publications

References 36 publications

Fourth-millennium-BC ‘leopard traps’ from the Negev Desert (Israel)

Fourth-millennium-BC ‘leopard traps’ from the Negev Desert (Israel)

Dating Stone Alignments by Luminescence

Luminescence Dating of Archaeological Sediments

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