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The 14C Chronology of the Son Mas Sanctuary Site (Valldemosa, Mallorca, Spain)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Mark J. Y. Van Strydonck ,
William H. Waldren  and
Veerle Hendrix
Mark J. Y. Van Strydonck
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Jubelpark 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
William H. Waldren
Affiliation:
Donald Baden-Powell Quaternary Research Centre, 60 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6PN, England
Veerle Hendrix
Affiliation:
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Jubelpark 1, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
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With >40 14C dates, mainly on bones and charcoal, the site at Son Mas is the only megalithic sanctuary on the Balearic Islands that has been dated by 14C in detail. Although soil erosion made stratigraphy difficult and the monument was cleaned out regularly during its long use, the results demonstrate that the site was occupied from the Pretalayotic (Chalcolithic) until the Roman period. The aim of this study was not only to date the construction and the use of the sanctuary, but also to correlate this monument, by means of dispersion diagrams, with the other prehistoric sites situated within the same valley. The dates were also used to compare the site with the generally accepted chronology of the Balearic archipelago (Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera).

Type
Part 2: Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 40 , Issue 2: 16th International Radiocarbon Conference June 16-20, 1997 Part 2: Applications, Conference Editors: Willem G. Mook Johannes van der Plicht , 1997 , pp. 735 - 748
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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