Updated archeomagnetic data set of the past 8 millennia from the Sofia laboratory, Bulgaria

Abstract

[1] This data brief reports the latest updates of archeomagnetic data obtained at the Sofia palaeomagnetic laboratory of the Geophysical Institute, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The current data set consists of measurements from 284 Bulgarian archeological sites covering the past 8000 years. There are also 54 sites from other European regions, namely, Serbia, Kossovo, Greece, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, and Russian Karelia, as well as five sites from Morocco in North Africa. The update of the archeomagnetic results consisted of a thorough revision of all geomagnetic field measurements as well as dating these measurements that were published in the original papers or in previous compilations. The updated results can be found in GEOMAGIA (http://geomagia. ucsd.edu) or as an Excel spreadsheet at the Earth Ref.org Digital Archive (http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/erda.cgi?n=946). © 2009 by the American Geophysical Union.