A new dating advance in archaeology: cosmogenic burial dating with P-PINI at Korolevo I

0576079 - GFÚ 2024 eng A - Abstract
Ylä-Mella, Lotta - Jansen, John D. - Garba, Roman - Kameník, Jan - Stübner, K. - Usik, V. - Rugel, G. - Lachner, J. - Veselovský, F. - Nørgaard, J. - Knudsen, M. F.
A new dating advance in archaeology: cosmogenic burial dating with P-PINI at Korolevo I.
[INQUA Congress 2023 /21./. Rome, 13.07.2023-20.07.2023]
Method of presentation: Poster
URL events: https://inquaroma2023.org/ 
Institutional support: RVO:67985530 ; RVO:67985912 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides * accelerator mass spectrometry * Korolevo * Early Pleistocene
OECD category: Physical geography; Archaeology (ARU-G); Analytical chemistry (UJF-V)

Terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides have been applied widely as a chronometer in the geosciences and archaeology. Unlike more conventional dating methods, such as luminescence or radiocarbon dating, burial dating with cosmogenic nuclides can access the past few million years of early hominin dispersal. Here, we constrain the age of the lowermost cultural layer at Korolevo I (western Ukraine) by applying a burial dating method that combines cosmogenic beryllium-10 and aluminium-26 measurements with an inversion model known as P-PINI (Particle Pathway Inversion of Nuclide Inventories). P-PINI merges the cosmogenic nuclide production equations with a Monte Carlo method to simulate millions of samples describing all plausible erosion and burial histories, which are then compared to nuclide abundances measured in field samples to determine the most probable burial age. P-PINI has been applied previously in a geomorphological context, here, it is used in archaeology for the first time alongside the conventional isochron burial dating method and we evaluate the pros and cons of each.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0345704