Posterior archaeomagnetic dating: An example from the Early Medieval site Thunau am Kamp, Austria
Elisabeth Schnepp|Martin Obenaus|Philippe Lanos
The Early Medieval valley settlement of Thunau am Kamp in Lower Austria has been under archaeological excavation for 10 years. site was occupied during the 9th and 10th centuries AD according to potsherds, which seem indicate two phases activity: older phase ovens were placed corners houses while younger they are found middle wall. present study conducted order increase archaeomagnetic database fill temporal gap around 900 AD. For this purpose 14 have sampled their paleaomagnetic signals. Laboratory treatment generally confirmed that baked clay preserved stable directions. Apart from one exception, all mean characteristic remanent magnetisation directions concentrated on part directional reference curve at about Using dating provides ages between 800 1100 AD, agreement with dating. Together age estimates stratigraphic information new data included into Austrian it recalculated using a version RenCurve. confine its error band considerably time interval This calibration process also probability density distributions each structure, allows posterior refines errors considerably. Because such includes is not an independent estimate but combination available methods.
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