The Ishkinino Bronze Age Mining Complex in the Southern Urals

Radiocarbon Dating

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6038020
AutoresV Tkachev, V V Tkachev, В В Ткачев (0000-0002-6355-1745, autor de correspondencia)
Año2019
Volumen47
Número3
Páginas38-47
Fecha de publicación2019-09-21
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaArchaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1563-0110 • E-ISSN: 1531-832X
EditorialInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17746/1563-0110.2019.47.3.038-047
OpenAlexW4230933211
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas5

This article presents the results of radiocarbon dating of buried soils beneath the dumps of ancient mines in the Ishkinino cobalt and copper pyrite deposit area, in the Southern Urals. The conserved upper horizons of stratigraphic sequences underlying the dumps of four mines were subjected to radiocarbon analysis. For comparison, samples from Bronze Age sites in the same area were used. Chronological ranges of the Yamnaya, Sintashta, and Kozhumberdy cultures were evaluated. Calibrated intervals of the buried soils from the Ishkinino mines show a good agreement with respective intervals relating to human and animal bones from nearby Bronze Age cemeteries and settlements. The early stage of the mines (2200–1840 BC) correlates with the Sintashta culture. Most geological and archaeological features at Ishkinino date to 1780–1130 BC, same as the Kozhumberdy settlement and cemeteries, representing the Alakul tradition. As the results suggest, radiocarbon dating of buried soils underlying the mine dumps is relevant to absolute and relative chronology of ancient mining, especially when archaeological contexts are of little help

Archaeology · Bronze · Bronze Age · Chalcolithic · Chronology · Excavation · Geography · Human settlement · Radiocarbon dating · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology