scholarly journals Radiocarbon Dating of the Turin Shroud: New Evidence from Raw Data

Archaeometry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 1223-1231 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Casabianca ◽  
E. Marinelli ◽  
G. Pernagallo ◽  
B. Torrisi
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
New Evidence

scholarly journals Dating the Irrigation System of the Samarkand Oasis: A Geoarchaeological Study

Radiocarbon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca C Malatesta ◽  
Sébastien Castelltort ◽  
Simone Mantellini ◽  
Vincenzo Picotti ◽  
Irka Hajdas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Numerical Modeling ◽  
Numerical Model ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Overland Flow ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Sedimentary Deposits ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Southern Flank

The oasis of Samarkand in the Middle Zeravshan Valley (modern Uzbekistan) was a major political and economic center in ancient western Central Asia. The chronology of its irrigation system was, until now, only constrained by the quality and quantity of archaeological findings and several different hypotheses have been proposed for it. We use a new approach combining archaeological surveying, radiocarbon dating, sedimentary analysis, and the numerical modeling of a flood event to offer new evidence for, and quantitative dating of, the development of irrigation system on the southern flank of the Middle Zeravshan Valley. We analyzed 13 bones and charcoals from 3 archaeological sites and obtained new 14C ages from Afrasiab (ancient Samarkand), a dwelling damaged by flooding in the 2nd century AD (site code: SAM-174) and the fortress of Kafir Kala. We established the origin of sedimentary deposits at the sites to infer the presence of the 2 most important canals of the southern flank: the Dargom and the Yanghiaryk. Finally, we show with a numerical model of overland flow that a natural flood was unlikely to have produced the damage observed at SAM-174. The combined results of the study indicate that the canals south of Samarkand existed, and were mainly developed, in the 2nd century AD and were not connected to the main feeding canal of Afrasiab at that time.

An Archaeological Investigation of Early Mineworkings on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth: New Evidence for Prehistoric Mining

1988 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 329-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Timberlake ◽  
Roy Switsur
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Middle Bronze Age ◽  
Mine Workings ◽  
Prehistoric Mining ◽  
The Hill ◽  
New Evidence

In September 1986 a small excavation was done by S. T. to investigate an area of primitive-style mine-workings on Copa Hill, Cwmystwyth, Dyfed (SN816756). A small opencast and several overgrown tips associated with pebble hammers occur where the copper-rich Comet Lode outcrops on the brow of the hill. Copa Hill is within an area of seventeenth–twentieth-century lead-mine workings which extend for 1.2 km along the N side of the Ystwyth Valley (fig. 1). Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from within one of the tips suggests that mining commenced in the middle Bronze Age.

scholarly journals Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from the Bianjiashan site in Hangzhou: New evidence for the lower age limit of the Liangzhu Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 9-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyu Zhang ◽  
Dasong Huang ◽  
Han Deng ◽  
Colin Snape ◽  
Will Meredith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Age Limit ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Liangzhu Culture

Leprosy in a Medieval Cemetery from Sudanese Nubia (Mouweiss, Shendi Area, Sudan)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Ardagna ◽  
M. Maillot
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Louvre Museum ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Hands And Feet ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Macroscopic Examination

The Mouweiss site (Shendi area, about 250 km North of Khartoum) is a Nilotic city of the Meroitic period (4th century BCE to 4th century CE), which the Louvre Museum (Paris) began to excavate in 2007. This was a large settlement that included a palace, which was later destroyed. The ruined walls of the palace also housed a medieval necropolis. About thirty rather crudely fashioned pits dug directly into the rubble of the palace were excavated. Radiocarbon dating from the tombs suggests funerary occupation from the “early Christian” to the “classic Christian” period. A macroscopic examination of the skeletal remains of the individual in grave 13 revealed palaeopathological signs pointing to Rhinomaxillary syndrome. The cranium of this 40- to 50-year-old woman showed significant bone resorption, particularly in the nasal area. Associated with these lesions are several modifications of the hands and feet, namely phalangeal acro-osteolysis and destructive diaphyseal remodelling. Differential diagnostic testing, in particular for other infectious/inflammatory diseases, concluded that the type and distribution of the lesions displayed by the individual from grave 13 at Mouweiss were indicative of leprosy. These findings contribute new data to understand the distribution of this disease and new evidence for leprosy in Sudanese Nubia, where there are very few palaeopathological cases illustrating its presence.

scholarly journals Statistical and Proactive Analysis of an Inter-Laboratory Comparison: The Radiocarbon Dating of the Shroud of Turin

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (9) ◽  
pp. 926
Author(s):  
Paolo Di Lazzaro ◽  
Anthony C. Atkinson ◽  
Paola Iacomussi ◽  
Marco Riani ◽  
Marco Ricci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Statistical Analyses ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Raw Data ◽  
Shroud Of Turin ◽  
Current Accuracy

We review the sampling and results of the radiocarbon dating of the archaeological cloth known as the Shroud of Turin, in the light of recent statistical analyses of both published and raw data. The statistical analyses highlight an inter-laboratory heterogeneity of the means and a monotone spatial variation of the ages of subsamples that suggest the presence of contaminants unevenly removed by the cleaning pretreatments. We consider the significance and overall impact of the statistical analyses on assessing the reliability of the dating results and the design of correct sampling. These analyses suggest that the 1988 radiocarbon dating does not match the current accuracy requirements. Should this be the case, it would be interesting to know the accurate age of the Shroud of Turin. Taking into account the whole body of scientific data, we discuss whether it makes sense to date the Shroud again.

scholarly journals Reassessing the Mesolithic\Neolithic ‘gap’ in Southeast European cave sequences

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 237-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrij Mlekuž ◽  
Mihael Budja ◽  
Robert Payton ◽  
Clive Bonsall ◽  
Andreja Žibrat Gašparič
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Population Decline ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Ams Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Cave Sediments ◽  
Soil Sediment ◽  
Geomorphological Processes ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Late Mesolithic

Radiocarbon sequences from some northern Mediterranean cave sites show a temporal gap between Mesolithic and Neolithic occupations. Some authors regard this as a regional phenomenon and have sought to explain it in terms of a general population decline in the late Mesolithic, which facilitated the replacement of indigenous foragers by immigrant farmers. New evidence from the rockshelter site of Mala Triglavca, in Slovenia, leads us to question this view. The results of AMS radiocarbon dating of samples recovered in excavations in the 1980s and associated soil/sediment analyses reveal evidence of substantial postdepositional disturbance of the cave sediments by human agency and geomorphological processes, which have created ‘temporal gaps’ and ‘inversions’ in the radiocarbon sequence and secondary deposits with residual finds.

Mobility and Alterity in Iberian Late Prehistoric Archaeology: Current Research on the Neolithic–Early Bronze Age (6000–1500 BCE)

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-65
Author(s):  
Katina T. Lillios
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Characterization Studies ◽  
Copper Metallurgy ◽  
New Evidence

Archaeological investigations of late prehistoric Iberia between the Neolithic and Bronze Age (6000–1500 BCE) have long been a battleground between indigenist and exogenous models, and understandings of mobility and alterity have played an important role in these debates. Prior to the development of radiocarbon dating, key cultural transformations, such as megaliths, copper metallurgy, fortified hilltop settlements, and Beakers, were generally associated with nonlocal peoples, migrants, or colonizers. With the incorporation of radiocarbon dating to Iberian archaeological contexts in the 1980s and the determination of the antiquity of many of these cultural changes, the pendulum swung in the other direction, with a marked shift toward viewing autochthonous origins for these watershed transitions. In recent years, developments in strontium isotope analyses, genetics, and raw material characterization studies have provided new evidence for the mobility of peoples and things, and diffusionist models, sometimes without critical theorization, have once again reemerged.

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