First archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for South America and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology

We report comprehensive rock-magnetic and archaeointensity investigations from 21 well-constrained pottery fragments from the Catamarca province of northwest Argentina. The absolute ages of the studied sites are ascertained by several high-quality radiometric ages and range between 1940 to 114014C y...

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Autores principales: Goguitchaichvili, Avto, Greco Mainero, Mariano Catriel, García Ruíz, Rafael, Pereyra Domingorena, Lucas, Cejudo, Ruben, Morales, Juan, Gogorza, Claudia Susana, Scattolin, Maria Cristina, Tarrago, Myriam Noemi
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Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/103698
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/103698
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topic Archaeomagnetism
Northwest Argentina
Paleosecular variation
Absolute geomagnetic intensity
Pre-Columbian pottery
Archaeomagnetic dating
Geoquímica y Geofísica
Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente
CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
Arqueología
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
spellingShingle Archaeomagnetism
Northwest Argentina
Paleosecular variation
Absolute geomagnetic intensity
Pre-Columbian pottery
Archaeomagnetic dating
Geoquímica y Geofísica
Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente
CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
Arqueología
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
Goguitchaichvili, Avto
Greco Mainero, Mariano Catriel
García Ruíz, Rafael
Pereyra Domingorena, Lucas
Cejudo, Ruben
Morales, Juan
Gogorza, Claudia Susana
Scattolin, Maria Cristina
Tarrago, Myriam Noemi
First archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for South America and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology
topic_facet Archaeomagnetism
Northwest Argentina
Paleosecular variation
Absolute geomagnetic intensity
Pre-Columbian pottery
Archaeomagnetic dating
Geoquímica y Geofísica
Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente
CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS
Arqueología
Historia y Arqueología
HUMANIDADES
description We report comprehensive rock-magnetic and archaeointensity investigations from 21 well-constrained pottery fragments from the Catamarca province of northwest Argentina. The absolute ages of the studied sites are ascertained by several high-quality radiometric ages and range between 1940 to 114014C yr BP. Magnetic mineralogy experiments indicates that the remanence is carried by thermally stable Ti-poor titanomagnetites. Forty-seven samples belonging to 11 out of 98 studied potsherds yielded reliable absolute intensity determinations judging from the quality parameters associated with the Thellier double-heating experiments. Moreover, we analyzed the available absolute geomagnetic intensities associated with the radiometric ages to construct the first intensity paleosecular variation curve (PSVC) for South America using thermoremanent magnetization carried by burned archaeological artifacts obtained in the present investigation and 79 other selected archaeointensities (out of 213 published in the literature). The dataset is used to build the PSVC reference curve by combined bootstrap and temporal P-spline methods. The variation curve shows significant differences with the global prediction model SHA.DIF.14k mainly based on the GEOMAGIA database. This intensity PSVC curve shows reasonably good agreement with paleosecular variation curves for Europe between 850 through 1150 BC and for Asia between 1000 and 1500 BC. This regional curve may be used as most reliable archaeomagnetic dating tool for the major part of South America (Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia) for the last two millennia.
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author Goguitchaichvili, Avto
Greco Mainero, Mariano Catriel
García Ruíz, Rafael
Pereyra Domingorena, Lucas
Cejudo, Ruben
Morales, Juan
Gogorza, Claudia Susana
Scattolin, Maria Cristina
Tarrago, Myriam Noemi
author_facet Goguitchaichvili, Avto
Greco Mainero, Mariano Catriel
García Ruíz, Rafael
Pereyra Domingorena, Lucas
Cejudo, Ruben
Morales, Juan
Gogorza, Claudia Susana
Scattolin, Maria Cristina
Tarrago, Myriam Noemi
author_sort Goguitchaichvili, Avto
title First archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for South America and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology
title_short First archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for South America and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology
title_full First archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for South America and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology
title_fullStr First archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for South America and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology
title_full_unstemmed First archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for South America and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology
title_sort first archaeointensity reference paleosecular variation curve for south america and its implications for geomagnetism and archaeology
publisher Cambridge University Press
publishDate 2019
url http://hdl.handle.net/11336/103698
http://suquia.ffyh.unc.edu.ar/handle/11336/103698
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