| Ref ID: | 27783 |
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| Ref Type: | Journal Article |
| Authors: | Pryce, Thomas Oliver Aung Aung Kyaw Andia, Lucy Champion, Louis Colonna, Camille Favereau, Aude Kalayar Myat Myat Htwe, Peixoto, Xavier Pradier, Baptiste Willis, Anna Valentin, Fréderique Zazzo, Antoine |
| Title: | Dating the Myanmar bronze age: preliminary <sup>14</sup>C dates from the Oakaie 1 cemetery near Nyaung'gan |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Source: | Journal of Indo-Pacific Archaeology |
| Abstract: | Since 2014 the Mission Archéologique Française au Myanmar has been excavating a prehistoric cemetery, Oakaie 1, adjacent to the famous Nyaunggan Bronze Age cemetery in Sagaing Division. Oakaie 1 (OAI1) was selected as a Nyaunggan proxy in order to better understand the Neolithic-Bronze Age-Iron Age chronological transitions in upper-central Myanmar, for eventual regional-scale synthesis. An initial attempt to AMS 14C date 13 human femurs failed due to a lack of collagen but a subsequent effort using an apatite dating methodology on 5 femurs was successful. These preliminary data bracket part of the cemetery from the 9th to 6th c. BC with a 4th-3rd c. BC outlier. Typological and technological analogies between OAI1 and Nyaunggan pottery grave goods likewise suggest an early 1st millennium BC date for the local Bronze Age. |
| Date Created: | 2/10/2016 |
| Volume: | 39 |
| Page Start: | 38 |
| Page End: | 49 |