Getting to the Bottom of It All: A Bayesian Approach to Dating the Start of Catalhoyuk
Getting to the Bottom of It All: A Bayesian Approach to Dating the Start of Catalhoyuk
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DOI：
10.1007/s10963-015-9083-7
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
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2
通讯作者：
Taylor, R. E.
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作者：
Bayliss, Alex;Brock, Fiona;Taylor, R. E.
一项新的放射性碳测年计划最初是在贝叶斯统计框架内构思的，最近已被应用于土耳其中部卡塔罗约克新石器时代东丘的最早占领水平。从1961年到1965年，Catalhoyuk由James Mellaart挖掘，由Ian Hodder指导的新挖掘于1993年开始。2012年，该遗址被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产。然而，该遗址的准确年代仍然不安全，在公元前8世纪末和公元前6世纪初的某个地方进行了校准。在这里报道的一个新的测年程序中，以前从该网站获得的日期已经与新的日期相结合，产生了一系列模型，这些模型可以进行统计评估，并与蚕茧生物学因素有关。首选的模型将Catalhoyuk最早出土的地层比之前认为的晚了200年。这一后来的年代对当地的延续和陶器的传播的影响也进行了讨论。
A new radiocarbon dating program, conceived at the outset within a Bayesian statistical framework, has recently been applied to the earliest levels of occupation on the Neolithic East Mound at Catalhoyuk in central Turkey. Catalhoyuk was excavated by James Mellaart from 1961 to 1965 and new excavations directed by Ian Hodder started in 1993. In 2012 the site was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. However, the precise dating of the site has remained insecure, bracketed somewhere between the late eighth and the early sixth millennium BC calibrated. In a new dating program reported on here, dates previously obtained from the site have been allied with new dates to produce a series of models that could be evaluated statistically and in relation to taphonomic considerations. The preferred model puts the earliest excavated layers at Catalhoyuk 200 years later than previously thought. The implications of this later dating for local continuity and for the spread of pottery are discussed.