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Dating of Total Soil Organic Matter Used in Kurgan Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

M Molnár ,
K Joó ,
A Barczi ,
Zs Szántó ,
I Futó ,
L Palcsu  and
L Rinyu
M Molnár*
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (INR/HAS), Laboratory of Environmental Studies, H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary.
K Joó
Affiliation:
Szent István University, Department of Landscape Ecology H-2103 Gödöllo Páter Károly u l., Hungary.
A Barczi
Affiliation:
Szent István University, Department of Landscape Ecology H-2103 Gödöllo Páter Károly u l., Hungary.
Zs Szántó
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (INR/HAS), Laboratory of Environmental Studies, H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary.
I Futó
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (INR/HAS), Laboratory of Environmental Studies, H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary.
L Palcsu
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (INR/HAS), Laboratory of Environmental Studies, H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary.
L Rinyu
Affiliation:
Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (INR/HAS), Laboratory of Environmental Studies, H-4026 Debrecen, Bem tér 18/c, Hungary.
*
Corresponding author. Email: mmol@atomki.hu.
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We investigated Csípo-halom, one of the kurgans that served as a burial place in the Hortobágy area of the Hungarian Great Plain. For pedological description and other studies of the protected mound and its surroundings, only a few monitoring drillings were permitted to get soil samples. On the basis of morphological and visual studies, the structure and layers of the mound were reconstructed. The Laboratory of Environmental Studies of the Institute of Nuclear Research at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (INR/HAS) performed radiocarbon measurements of soil samples, applying a bulk combustion pretreatment method. The measured 14C ages of soil samples from reference points, such as the top layer of the mound, the center of mound body, the base layer of the mound, the near surroundings, and the distant surroundings, are in good agreement with the preliminary archaeological concept for this field and give substantial information about the rate of soil generation processes in this area.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 46 , Issue 1: Proceedings of the 18th International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 1 of 2), Conference Editors: Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rodger J Sparks , 2004 , pp. 413 - 419
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Copyright © 2004 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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