Dating stratified settlement sites at Kom K and Kom W: Fifth millennium BCE radiocarbon ages for the Fayum Neolithic

作者：Wendrich W; Taylor R E^*; Southon J

来源：Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms , 2010, 268(7-8): 999-1002.

DOI：10.1016/j.nimb.2009.10.083

• Egyptian archaeology
• Neolithic
• Fayum Neolithic
• Birket Qarun

The earliest evidence of the use of domesticated plants, a traditional hallmark of Neolithic societies in the ancient Near East, first appears in Egypt in archaeological sites in the Fayum depression. Due to wind erosion often resulting in deflation of sediments in this region, stratified sites containing organic materials are rare and the depositional contexts of some earlier C-14 measurements on Fayum Neolithic materials are not precisely documented. We report the results of 29 AMS-based C-14 determinations on charcoal recovered from stratified contexts in two Fayum Neolithic village sites, Kom K and Kom W. These data assign a mid-5th millennium BCE age to these sites and permit an estimate of the length of their occupation to be approximately three centuries.

• 出版日期2010-4