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Radiocarbon Sample Information
Gd-1668 Całowanie X/83-3B Age: 8640 ± 80 BP |
Sample name: | Całowanie X/83-3B |
Submitter: | Schild Romuald |
Institution: |
PAN Warszawa Instytut Historii (IHKM) Swierczewskiego 105 00-140 Warszawa |
Collector: Date of collection: |
Schild Romuald July 1983 |
Additional information: | Individual pieces of charcoal or charred wood from Trench X/1983, the topmost part of Level 11b, cultural layer VII; depth 75 cm. |
Material of sample: | charcoal |
Contamination: | |
Type of site: | trench |
Field of study: | archaeology |
Sample location: | |
Site name: | Całowanie |
Latitude: | 52 06 00N |
Longitude: | 21 14 00E |
Detailed description of the sample location: | |
Calowanie, south of Otwock, Warsaw district. | |
Environment description: | |
Late Paleolithic cultural layers at the edge of a dune at contact with a peat bog. Calowanie is a key site for interdisciplinary studies of the Final Paleolithic in Poland. It is located in the center of an abandoned channel of the Vistula River filled with thick beds of peat and some sandy islands with traces of human occupation. |
References to literature: | Radiocarbon Data List XI |
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