Radiocarbon Dating Sites of Northwest Russia and Latvia

• Published in: Radiocarbon
• Main Authors: Zaitseva, G. I., Popov, S. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1994
• Subjects: Northwest Russia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200014557; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0033822200014557

We describe applications of radiocarbon dating used for establishing a chronology of archaeological sites of the Novgorod region at the end of the first millennium ad. We have 14 C-dated known-age tree rings from sites in Latvia and ancient Novgorod, northwest Russia, as well as charcoal and wood from Novgorod. Calendar ages of 14 C-dated tree rings span the interval, ad 765–999. We used the Groningen calibration program, CAL15 (van der Plicht 1993) to calibrate 14 C ages to calendar years. Comparisons between 14 C results and archaeological data show good agreement, and enable us to narrow the calendar interval of calibrated 14 C determinations.