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ESTIMATION OF THE AGE OF A PRE‐INDUSTRIAL IRON SITE IN KOREA*
Author(s) -
PARK J. S.,
NAKAMURA T.,
PRICE D. M.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
archaeometry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.716
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1475-4754
pISSN - 0003-813X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2005.00237.x
Subject(s) - radiocarbon dating , accelerator mass spectrometry , charcoal , archaeology , period (music) , thermoluminescence , smelting , chronology , typology , geology , geography , art , metallurgy , materials science , aesthetics , optoelectronics , luminescence
A pre‐industrial iron‐smelting site in Korea, whose period of active use is placed on typological grounds between the eighth and 18th centuries ad , has been dated using accelerator mass spectrometry and thermoluminescence. The ages of two charcoal samples were 77 ± 25 and 81 ± 25 years bp , with the calibrated date for both ranging from ad 1700 to ad 1955, while a clay fragment dated to ad 1650 ± 50. The results from typology and radiocarbon seem insignificant due to the considerable uncertainties involved, but in combination with the thermoluminescence result they place the most probable date of the site at around ad 1700.