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Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria: Radiocarbon Chronology, Cultural Change, and the 8.2 ka Event

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J van der Plicht ,
P M M G Akkermans ,
O Nieuwenhuyse ,
A Kaneda  and
A Russell
J van der Plicht*
Affiliation:
Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands. Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
P M M G Akkermans
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
O Nieuwenhuyse
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
A Kaneda
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
A Russell
Affiliation:
Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands.
*
Corresponding author. Email: j.van.der.plicht@rug.nl.
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At Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria, we obtained a robust chronology for the 7th to early 6th millennium BC, the Late Neolithic. The chronology was obtained using a large set of radiocarbon dates, analyzed by Bayesian statistics. Cultural changes observed at ~6200 BC are coeval with the 8.2 ka climate event. The inhabitation remained continuous.

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Archaeology
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Radiocarbon , Volume 53 , Issue 2 , 2011 , pp. 229 - 243
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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