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Проблеми радіовуглецевої хронології Межиріцького поселення мисливців на мамонтів

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  • 1. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • 2. National Museum of the History of Ukraine

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  • 1. Institute of Archaeology of the NAS of Ukraine

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Issues of radiocarbon chronology of the Mezhyrich mammoth hunters’ settlement.
During the years of the settlement research, a number of ‘absolute’ dates were obtained by the radiocarbon method performed by different laboratories. Since these results were published separately, as new data were obtained, it is advisable to combine them in one source. Thus, as of 2022, we have 34 dates that differ in the time of analysis, material, selection method, and context. At first glance, there is a wide spread in the obtained results, dating the site from 19 to 13 ka (uncal.) BP. A number of factors can explain this spread. One of the main factors of widespread dating is the gradual improvement of the method itself. All valid dating of the mammoth bone was located in a quite wide range within 15,400-14,300 BP, which corresponds to 18,900­-16,600 cal BP, without forming visible peak values. Such a time span may be evidence of the use the mammoth cemetery by the inhabitants, which accumulated for quite a long time immediately after the glacial maximum. The limit of the youngest dating of mammoth bones in all units falls on 17,300 cal BP, which should coincide with the time of the real existence of the settlement, if we allow for the active hunting of mammoths by the inhabitants. At the same time, dating from other samples (charcoal, bones of a hare, a wolf and a fox) determine a slightly shorter period (15.3 - 14.4 ka BP). Six dates obtained from Dwelling 1, Dwelling 2 and Dwelling 4, fitted between 14,800 and 14,380 BP, demonstrate almost no difference in age neither in between the dwellings nor in between wolf and mammoth bones. These six dates are also consistent with the set of six dates obtained before 2001 on mammoth material from dwel­lings 1 to 4, although these dates have much larger sigma’s. This time interval, 18,200 - ­17,300 cal BP, should correspond to the time of the residents’ main occupation at the site. However, this dispersion can be explained by the peculiarity of the calibration curve, when dating with minimal error is “stretched” in calendar years. Taking into account that some of the bones were brought to the site as building material, it is necessary to be very careful when selecting samples and when determining the different stages of occupation of the territory of the settlement.

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