Thermoluminescent dating of the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age pottery on sites in Kłyżów and Jarosław (SE Poland)

Abstract

Abstract:The absolute chronology of Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Polish territories is a result of long-term and complex research. Here, we have investigated the absolute dating of two sites, namely Kłyżów, a cemetery of the Tarnobrzeg Lusatian culture, and Jarosław, a settlement spanning from the late phase of the former to Pomeranian culture, possibly with Jastorf elements. Having been spurred by promising results of thermoluminescence (TL) dating of medieval and Przeworsk materials, we have employed it in those situations, where no other chronometric methods seem to be efficient. TL dating has been combined with typological analysis of the dated pottery and, partially, with radiocarbon method. Albeit the produced TL dates do not represent the level of sought-for fine chronological resolution, they indicate the temporal trends and corroborate the typological research. Our study has shown the potential of TL dating for periods with plateaus on 14 C calibration curve. We also have dealt with unexpected TL ages and suggested some solutions of the problem. Finally, we have demonstrated that the condition sine qua non for archaeological interpretation of TL dates is a thorough stylistic-chronological analysis of dated pottery and clear understanding of relations between chronometric dates and the archaeological event to be dated.

Absolute Dates of Artifacts From Lusatian Urnfield Cemetery at Brzezie, Greater Poland

“…Therefore, we decided to use the archaeological record recovered from a Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age cemetery (12th-early 6th BC) in Brzezie.The results of thermoluminescence dating of the materials of the Tarnobrzeg Lusatian culture(Trybała-Zawiślak 2012;Czopek et al 2013) provided a new direction in the search for a way out of the impasse in the study of the absolute chronology of the Hallstatt period in south-western Poland. During the 2017 and 2018 excavations, several samples were collected for the thermoluminescence dating of the Brzezie assemblages.…”

(Review) Katarzyna Trybała-Zawiślak, Wczesna epoka żelaza na terenie Polski południowo-wschodniej – dynamika zmian i relacje kulturowe (The Early Iron Age in south-eastern Poland – dynamics of changes and cultural relations). Rzeszów 2019…

“…It organizes and summarizes previously unknown or only briefly mentioned (e.g. Czopek et al 2013;2017;Trybała-Zawiślak 2016) results from rescue research, as well as from single or group research projects, conducted in Poland and in the borderland areas of Ukraine.…”