Dendrochronological Study of Wood from the Oglakhty Burial Ground of the Tashtyk Culture (Republic of Khakassia): First Results
The article presents the first results of dendrochronological dating of wood from the graves of the Oglakhty burial ground. Being one of the most outstanding sites of the Tashtyk culture, the burial ground is going through the third stage in the history of its research, which is characterized by the implementation of an integrated interdisciplinary approach. Due to the preservation of objects made of organic materials in the burials, including wooden burial log cabins, topical issues of chronology are resolved using tree-ring analysis. The material for the study is a collection of 40 woodsamples originating from five (possibly six) graves, investigated in 1903 by A.V. Adrianov (graves 1-2), in 1969-1970 by L.R. Kyzlasov (graves 4, 8), in 2021 by E.V. Vod-yasov (graves 2021/1, 2021/2). To obtain chronological information, the cross-dating method was used, as a result of which two generalized tree-ring width (TRW) chronologies were formed: for larch trees - 228 years long, for pine trees - 178 years long. Of the 40 samples, 80% were relatively dated according to these two TRW-chronologies. Besides, the TRW larch and pine chronologies were cross-dated with each other quite reliably. Based on the results of the study, an approximate chronological order of the graves within the interval of 50-55 years was proposed: the earliest is grave 2021/2, the latest is grave 4. At the same time, the construction of burials in the Eastern and Western plots of the Oglakhty burial ground proceeded simultaneously. All dates obtained are relative, that is, established within the framework of a "floating" tree-ring chronology. They will move into the absolute category in the near future by radiocarbon dating of wood samples using the “wiggle-matching” technique. Thus, as a result of the study of wood from the burial structures of the Oglakhty burial ground, the fundamental possibility of tree-ring dating of graves was established and the first results of relative chronology were obtained.
Keywords
Tashtyk culture,
Oglakhty burial ground,
burial wood,
dendrochrono-logical dating,
tree-ring chronology,
relative chronologyAuthors
| Slyusarenko Igor Y. | Tomsk State University; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences | slig1963@yandex.ru |
| Garkusha Yuriy N. | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences | yunga1971@ngs.ru |
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