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T1 Further Evidence of High Intensity During the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly in Southwestern Europe: Full Vector Archeomagnetic Dating of an Early Iron Age Dwelling From Western Spain
A1 García Redondo, Natalia
A1 Calvo Rathert, Manuel
A1 Carrancho Alonso, Ángel
A1 Goguitchaichvili, Avto
A1 Iriarte Avilés, Eneko
A1 Blanco González, A.
A1 Dekkers, M. J.
A1 Morales Contreras, Juan J.
A1 Alario García, C.
A1 Macarro Alcalde, C.
K1 Geomagnetic field changes
K1 Iberian Peninsula
K1 Archeomagnetism
K1 Archeointensity
K1 Levantine Iron Age Anomaly
K1 Magnetismo
K1 Magnetism
K1 Arqueología
K1 Archaeology
AB We report an archeomagnetic study from the Early Iron Age archeological site of Cerro deSan Vicente (Salamanca, Spain). The studied materials were sampled from one roundhouse and its centralfireplace, a surrounding burnt floor, and slags with a twofold objective. First, to archeomagneticallydetermine the last use of the central fireplace, because dating with other methods was imprecise.Second, to retrieve information about the Earth's magnetic field in Western Europe from a periodwhen the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly (LIAA) has been occasionally reported. This study includesmineralogical, archeomagnetic directional analyses, and multimethod archeointensity determinations.Paleomagnetic analyses of the central fireplace yield a mean direction: declination D = 15.1°, inclinationI = 52.5°; k = 477.1, and α95 = 5.6°. Archeointensity determinations yield a mean anisotropy-correctedarcheointensity of 72.4 ± 2.0 μT (74.7 ± 4.3 μT if a pTRM-check correction is applied) on the centralfireplace and 48.2 ± 2.0 μT on slags. A full-vector archeomagnetic dating was performed with the SHA.DIF.4k geomagnetic field model which yielded an age interval of last use of the central fireplace between644 and 575 BCE (654–575 BCE with the pTRM-check corrected data) at 95% confidence level. This dateagrees with the archeological context. Results allows to place the high paleointensity obtained near themaximum observed in Iberia at this age, confirming the existence of this peak related to the LIAA inWestern Europe where records of this feature are still scarce.
PB Wiley
SN 2169-9313
YR 2021
FD 2021-09
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6097
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6097
LA eng
NO Financial support for this work wasobtained from Junta de Castilla y León(project BU235P18) and the EuropeanRegional Development Fund (ERDF)and the PID2019-105796GB-I00 ofthe Agencia Estatal de Investigación(AEI/10.13039/501100011033)
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024