<abstract xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Bone catapult and hammer-headed pins played one of very specific roles in funerary offerings in the Bronze Age graves uncovered in the Eurasian Steppes and the North Caucasus. Scholars used different types of pins as key grave offerings for numerous chronological models. For the first time eight pins have been radiocarbon dated. 14C dating of bone pins identified the catapult type pin as the earliest one. They marked the period of the Yamnaya culture formation. Then Yamnaya population produced hammer-headed pins which became very popular in other cultural environments and spread very quickly across the Steppe and the Caucasus during 2900–2650 cal BC. But according to radiocarbon dating bone pins almost disappeared after 2600 cal BC.</p></abstract>

Bone catapult and hammer-headed pins played one of very specific roles in funerary offerings in the Bronze Age graves uncovered in the Eurasian Steppes and the North Caucasus. Scholars used different types of pins as key grave offerings for numerous chronological models. For the first time eight pins have been radiocarbon dated. 14C dating of bone pins identified the catapult type pin as the earliest one. They marked the period of the Yamnaya culture formation. Then Yamnaya population produced hammer-headed pins which became very popular in other cultural environments and spread very quickly across the Steppe and the Caucasus during 2900–2650 cal BC. But according to radiocarbon dating bone pins almost disappeared after 2600 cal BC.

Radiocarbon dating of the bronze age bone pins from Eurasian steppe

Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, Groningen, the Netherlands

Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Geochronometria

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Bone catapult and hammer-headed pins played one of very specific roles in funerary offerings in the Bronze Age graves uncovered in the Eurasian Steppes and the...

Radiocarbon dating of the bronze age bone pins from Eurasian steppe

Published Online: Mar 20, 2011

Page range: 107 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-011-0015-8

Keywords
Bronze Age, Eurasian Steppe, radiocarbon dating, bone pins

© 2011 Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Radiocarbon dating of the bronze age bone pins from Eurasian steppe

Published Online: Mar 20, 2011

Page range: 107 - 115

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/s13386-011-0015-8

KeywordsBronze Age, Eurasian Steppe, radiocarbon dating, bone pins

© 2011 Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Bronze Age, Eurasian Steppe, radiocarbon dating, bone pins