Tóth, Peter, Petřík, Jan, Bickle, Penny orcid.org/0000-0003-2482-0268 et al. (6 more authors) (2023) Radiocarbon dating of grass-tempered ceramic reveals the earliest pottery from Slovakia predates the arrival of farming. Radiocarbon. ISSN 1945-5755
Abstract
We present a novel method of bulk separation of organic content from the grass-tempered pottery from Santovka (Slovakia). The procedure is based on the consecutive application of three inorganic acids, dissolving clay, silica content, and low molecular or mobile fractions to separate organic inclusions added to the pottery matrix during the formation of vessels. Radiocarbon dates obtained with this method are coherent and produce the shortest time span compared to other pretreatment methods presented in this study. The paired dates of grass-tempered pots with the radiocarbon age of lipids extracted from the same pots point to a difference of 400–600 14C years, however, they are in line with the site’s chronostratigraphic Bayesian model. Grass-tempered pottery from Santovka (Slovakia) is dated to the first half of the 6th millennium cal BC, making it the earliest pottery north of the Danube. It seems feasible that ceramic containers from Santovka were produced by hunter-gatherers, and pottery pre-dated the arrival of farming in the Carpathian region by a couple of centuries
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2023 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > Archaeology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 03 May 2023 08:20 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 18:08 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/RDC.2023.39 |
Status: | Published online |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/RDC.2023.39 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:198828 |
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