Accurate compound-specific C-14 dating of archaeological pottery vessels

doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2178-z

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DOI	10.1038/s41586-020-2178-z
	Accurate compound-specific C-14 dating of archaeological pottery vessels
	Yin, Yafei 1,2; Lu, J. Yuyang 1,2; Zhang, Xuechun 1,2; Shao, Wen 1,2; Xu, Yanhui 1,2; Li, Pan 1,2,3; Hong, Yantao 1,2; Cui, Li 1,2; Shan, Ge 4; Tian, Bin 5,6; Zhang, Qiangfeng Cliff 1,2,3; Shen, Xiaohua 1,2
	2020-04-08
发表期刊	NATURE
ISSN	0028-0836
EISSN	1476-4687
出版年	2020
卷号	580 期号:7804 页码:506-+
文章类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	England; Scotland; Poland; France; Italy; South Africa; Ireland; Germany; Netherlands
英文关键词	Pottery is one of the most commonly recovered artefacts from archaeological sites. Despite more than a century of relative dating based on typology and seriation(1), accurate dating of pottery using the radiocarbon dating method has proven extremely challenging owing to the limited survival of organic temper and unreliability of visible residues(2-4). Here we report a method to directly date archaeological pottery based on accelerator mass spectrometry analysis of C-14 in absorbed food residues using palmitic (C-16:0) and stearic (C-18:0) fatty acids purified by preparative gas chromatography(5-8). We present accurate compound-specific radiocarbon determinations of lipids extracted from pottery vessels, which were rigorously evaluated by comparison with dendrochronological dates(9,10) and inclusion in site and regional chronologies that contained previously determined radiocarbon dates on other materials(11-15). Notably, the compound-specific dates from each of the C-16:0 and C-18:0 fatty acids in pottery vessels provide an internal quality control of the results(6) and are entirely compatible with dates for other commonly dated materials. Accurate radiocarbon dating of pottery vessels can reveal: (1) the period of use of pottery (2) the antiquity of organic residues, including when specific foodstuffs were exploited (3) the chronology of sites in the absence of traditionally datable materials and (4) direct verification of pottery typochronologies. Here we used the method to date the exploitation of dairy and carcass products in Neolithic vessels from Britain, Anatolia, central and western Europe, and Saharan Africa. Using lipid residues absorbed in potsherds, the ages of pottery from various archaeological sites are determined and validated using sites for which the dates are well known from other methods.
领域	地球科学 ; 气候变化 ; 资源环境
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000528065800024
WOS关键词	RADIOCARBON ; CALIBRATION ; CARBON
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/249221
专题	地球科学资源环境科学
作者单位	1.Tsinghua Univ, Sch Med, Tsinghua Peking Joint Ctr Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China; 2.Tsinghua Univ, Sch Life Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China; 3.Tsinghua Univ, Beijing Adv Innovat Ctr Struct Biol, Beijing, Peoples R China; 4.Univ Sci & Technol China, Sch Life Sci, Hefei, Anhui, Peoples R China; 5.Rutgers New Jersey Med Sch, Dept Microbiol Biochem & Mol Genet, Newark, NJ USA; 6.Rutgers Canc Inst New Jersey, Newark, NJ USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yin, Yafei,Lu, J. Yuyang,Zhang, Xuechun,et al. Accurate compound-specific C-14 dating of archaeological pottery vessels[J]. NATURE,2020,580(7804):506-+.
APA	Yin, Yafei.,Lu, J. Yuyang.,Zhang, Xuechun.,Shao, Wen.,Xu, Yanhui.,...&Shen, Xiaohua.(2020).Accurate compound-specific C-14 dating of archaeological pottery vessels.NATURE,580(7804),506-+.
MLA	Yin, Yafei,et al."Accurate compound-specific C-14 dating of archaeological pottery vessels".NATURE 580.7804(2020):506-+.