Датировка Разгрома Ярославля По Данным Радиоуглеродного Датирования

Abstract

This paper raises methodological issues of radiocarbon dating of historical events basing on the data obtained during the excavations in of the Russian medieval city of Yaroslavl. The city is of special interest to our study because of the precise time of its destruction by troops of Batu Khan mentioned in chronicles – the winter of 1238. To date in Yaroslavl there have been discovered nine sanitary mass-burials of citizens and domestics animals buried sometime after the Mongols massacre. To date in Yaroslavl there have been discovered nine sanitary mass-burials of citizens and domestics animals buried sometime after the Mongols massacre, of which we have dated sixty-five samples. A Bayesian chronological model of the AMS dates narrowed the interval to the range of 1233–1269 cal AD. The synchrony of all burials was confirmed with probability of 95.6%.