Open AccessChronological Modelling of the Chalcolithic Settlement Layers at Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria
Author(s) -
Yavor Boyadzhiev,
Kamen Boyadzhiev,
Lennart Brandtstätter,
Raiko Krauß
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
documenta praehistorica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1854-2492
pISSN - 1408-967X
DOI - 10.4312/dp.48.5
Subject(s) - chalcolithic , radiocarbon dating , archaeology , chronology , context (archaeology) , excavation , geography , period (music) , geology , bronze age , art , aesthetics
This article publishes a new series of radiocarbon dates from Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria. Context-based excavations undertaken over a large surface area, as well as a small test trench, provided a long stratigraphic sequence (11 ‘building levels’) covering a large part of the Chalcolithic period in Thrace (5th millennium BCE). Bayesian statistics and Gaussian Monte Carlo Wiggle Matching were employed to achieve a fine chronology for the multilayered tell. Implications and problems on the application of the calibration curve for the Late and Final Chalcolithic in Bulgaria are also discussed.