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Noppradit, Prakrit ORCID: 0000-0002-2913-6564, Symanczyk, Anika, Zoeller, Ludwig, Brueckner, Helmut and Stock, Friederike ORCID: 0000-0003-4182-3778 (2019). Methodological approach for dating harbor sediments by using luminescence datinga case study in Ephesus, Western Turkey. Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci., 11 (7). S. 3143 - 3154. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG. ISSN 1866-9565

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Abstract

For this study, a 15-m sediment core from the Roman harbor of Ephesus has been dated with the luminescence technique. C-14 age estimates from the same and a neighboring core were used for comparing and validating the luminescence dating results via a single aliquot regenerative dose (SAR) protocol: infrared stimulation of polymineral and blue stimulation of quartz. The results reveal new insights into the deposition of the sediments of the Roman harbor from 2000 BC to AD 1500 approximately. Some samples showed incomplete bleaching. The difference between the polymineral and the quartz techniques described the bleaching condition before burial. When both approaches give consistent ages, complete bleaching can be assumed. Consistent ages were further applied to the Bayesian age-depth model and discussed within the archeological context. Based on the Bayesian age-depth model, a high sedimentation rate of ca. 65mm/year was calculated for the period of similar to 700-400 BC suggesting a fast advance of the delta front. However, other age estimates suggest a fast advance for the period 200 BC to ca. AD 100. This is probably due to incomplete bleaching of the luminescence samples and the use of bulk samples for C-14 for this new study. Comparing the results with nearby cores suggests that dredging was conducted in the southern part of the Roman harbor at a depth of ca. 5m b.s.l.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Noppradit, Prakrit UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2913-6564 UNSPECIFIED Symanczyk, Anika UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Zoeller, Ludwig UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Brueckner, Helmut UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stock, Friederike UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4182-3778 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-136843
DOI:	10.1007/s12520-018-0739-y
Journal or Publication Title:	Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci.
Volume:	11
Number:	7
Page Range:	S. 3143 - 3154
Date:	2019
Publisher:	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Place of Publication:	HEIDELBERG
ISSN:	1866-9565
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ANCIENT EPHESUS; SINGLE-ALIQUOT; HUMAN IMPACT; LIFE-CYCLE; ROMAN; DELTA; ARTEMISION; CHRONOLOGY; EXAMPLE; QUARTZ Multiple languages Anthropology; Archaeology; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/13684