14C Wiggle matching of the 'floating' tree-ring chronology from the Altai Mountains, southern Siberia: The ulandryk-4 case study

Abstract

The Bayesian approach to calibration of radiocarbon dates was used to wiggle-match the "floating" tree-ring chronology from a Pazyryk culture (Scythian-type complex from Sayan-Altai Mountain system, southern Siberia) burial ground in order to estimate the calendar age of its construction. Seventeen bidecadal tree-ring samples were 14C dated with high precision (± 20-30 yr). The results of wiggle-matching show that the Pazyryk-type burial mounds in the southern Altai Mountains were created in the first part of 3rd century BC. © 2001 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona.