Achaeometrical Research in Hungary II., 1988

PROSPECTING and DATING - Ede HERTELENDI - Éva SVINGOR - Pál RACZKY - Ferenc HORVÁTH - István FUTÓ - László BARTOSIEWICZ - Mihály MOLNÁR: Radicarbon chronology of the Neolithic and time span of tell settlements in eastern Hungary based on calibrated radiocarbon dates

with dendrochronology, for example in the lakeshore pile dwellings of the Alpine Foreland (Table 3). Table 3 Summarized radiocarbon dates of the strata at the four tell sites studied Tell settlement Noof

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C data Confidence interval (68.3%) cal ВС Time span (68.6%) [years] Öcsöd - Kováshalom 14 5110-4830 280 level 1 7 5181-4931 250 level 2 7 5020-4782 238 Hódmezővásárhely -Gorzsa-Cukortanya 20 4850-4550 300 Polgár Csőszhalom 76 4840-4560 280 level 3 16 4905-4646 259 level 2 6 4843-4692 151 level 1 54 4795-4530 265 Berettyóújfalu - Herpály 37 4730-4450 280 level 9 4822-4560 262 level 8 14 4749-4495 254 level 7 10 4747-4371 376 level 6 5 4644-4428 216 level 5 5 4601-4386 215 Acknowledgements This work was supported by the National Scientific Research Foundation of Hungary (OTKA Grant No. T 18179). We gratefully acknowledge the technical assistance provided by Ms. Magdolna Mogyorósi. References Aitchison, T. C, Ottaway, B. S. and Al-Ruzaiza, A. S. 1991 Summarizing a group of С dates on the historical time scale: with a worked example from the Late Neolithic of Bavaria. Antiquity 65, 108-116. Bognár-Kutzián, I. 1985 Contribution to the prehistoric chronology of Hungary. Mitteilungen des Archäologischen Institutes der Ungrarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 14: 293-298. 56