(super 14) C wiggle matching of the "floating" tree-ring chronology from the Altai Mountains, southern Siberia; the Ulkandryk-4 case study.

Abstract

The Bayesian approach to calibration of radiocarbon dates was used to wiggle-match the "floating" tree-ring chronology from a Pazyryk culture (Scythian-type complex from Sayan-Altai Mountain system, southern Siberia) burial ground in order to estimate the calendar age of its construction. Seventeen bidecadal tree-ring samples were (super 14) C dated with high precision (+ or -20-30 yr). The results of wiggle-matching show that the Pazyryk-type burial mounds in the southern Altai Mountains were created in the first part of 3rd century BC.