Radiocarbon dating of the bronze age bone pins from Eurasian steppe

Geochronometria

Johan Van Der Plicht¹  Elya P. Zazovskaya²  Natalia I. Shishlina³ 

[1]Groningen University

[2]Leiden University

[3]State Historical museum

关键词: Bronze Age;    Eurasian Steppe;    radiocarbon dating;    bone pins;   

DOI  :  10.2478/s13386-011-0015-8

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Politechnika Slaska * Instytut Fizyki

【 摘 要 】

Bone catapult and hammer-headed pins played one of very specific roles in funerary offerings in the Bronze Age graves uncovered in the Eurasian Steppes and the North Caucasus. Scholars used different types of pins as key grave offerings for numerous chronological models. For the first time eight pins have been radiocarbon dated. 14C dating of bone pins identified the catapult type pin as the earliest one. They marked the period of the Yamnaya culture formation. Then Yamnaya population produced hammer-headed pins which became very popular in other cultural environments and spread very quickly across the Steppe and the Caucasus during 2900–2650 cal BC. But according to radiocarbon dating bone pins almost disappeared after 2600 cal BC.

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