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Towards a refined chronology for the Bronze Age of the southern Urals, Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

B.K. Hanks ,
A.V. Epimakhov  and
A.C. Renfrew
B.K. Hanks
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology, #3113 WWPH, 230 S. Bouquet St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA (Email: bkh5@pitt.edu)
A.V. Epimakhov
Affiliation:
Russian Academy of Sciences, Urals Branch, Institute of History and Archaeology, Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation (Email: eav@susu.ac.ru)
A.C. Renfrew
Affiliation:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge, UK (Email: des25@cam.ac.uk)
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Cultural interactions in central Russia are famously complex, but of very wide significance. Within the social changes they imply are contained key matters for Europe and Asia: the introduction of Indo-Europeans and other languages, the horse and the chariot, and the transition towards nomadism. Of crucial importance to future research is a sturdy chronological framework and in this contribution the authors offer 40 new radiocarbon dates spanning the conventional Bronze Age in the southern Urals.

Keywords

Bronze AgeRussiaUral mountainsAMS datingAndronovoSintashta
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Antiquity , Volume 81 , Issue 312 , 1 June 2007 , pp. 353 - 367
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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