Open AccessThe absolute date of the Great Salbyk Kurgan and the Salbyk stage of the Tagar culture (a response to the article by N. Yu. Kuz'min)
Author(s) -
L. Marsadolov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
arheologičeskie vesti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1817-6976
DOI - 10.31600/1817-6976-2020-30-43-53
Subject(s) - chronology , absolute (philosophy) , radiocarbon dating , stage (stratigraphy) , archaeology , history , geology , paleontology , philosophy , theology
This paper is a response to the critical notes in the article by N. Yu. Kuz'min “New dat- ing of the Great Salbyk barrow and the chronology of Tagar sites”. For N. Yu. Kuz'min, in his article of 2020, it remained “unclear” what is the basis of absolute dating of archaeological sites of the Tagar culture — Sal- byk, Kobyak, Bidzha, Large Poltakovsky and Novomikhaylovsky barrows. The absolute dates of the Salbyk stage of the Tagar culture are based not on radiocarbon analysis but on a cross-comparison of diverse simi- lar, in terms of the forms and types, archaeological objects with reference to well-dated sites of Southern Siberia of the 8th–7th century BC.