Radiocarbon Dated Pulse and Cereal Crops Indicate Diachronic Use of Iron Age Extreme Upland Sites in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia

0577057 - ÚJF 2024 RIV PL eng J - Journal Article
Barta, Peter - Hajnalová, M. - Benediková, L. - Dreslerová, Dagmar - Pieta, K.
Radiocarbon Dated Pulse and Cereal Crops Indicate Diachronic Use of Iron Age Extreme Upland Sites in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia.
Geochronometria. Roč. 50, č. 1 (2023), s. 1-20. ISSN 1897-1695. E-ISSN 1897-1695
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT EF16_019/0000728
Institutional support: RVO:67985912 ; RVO:61389005
Keywords : radiocarbon * cereal and pulse crops * mountain summit sites * Hallstatt Period * La Tene Period
OECD category: Atomic, molecular and chemical physics (physics of atoms and molecules including collision, interaction with radiation, magnetic resonances, Mössbauer effect); Archaeology (ARU-G)
Impact factor: 1.2, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Open access
https://doi.org/10.2478/geochr-2023-0001

Mountain summits in the Slovak part of the Western Carpathians bear evidence of human presence from the Late Bronze to the Late Iron Age. According to fire-induced changes in archaeological record and finds of weaponry, some of the extreme upland sites (EUS) were viewed as places of safety or refugia violently destroyed within a short period. We have focussed on three sites with summits at 1300-1550 m a. s. l. and found out that two of them were used in 650-400 calBC and 390-150 calBC, respectively. By the first systematic use of C-14 dating and targeted C-14 sampling, we have overcome the inherent chronological imprecision of their artefactual record and opened new vistas for interpretation of this type of sites.
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