New radiocarbon dates for the Criş site of Sacarovca I (Moldova)

Dmytro Kiosak; Valentin A. Dergaciov; Soenke Szidat; Willy Tinner

doi:10.23858/SA/75.2023.1.3212

Published: 2023-12-12

Vol. 75 No. 1 (2023)

New radiocarbon dates for the Criş site of Sacarovca I (Moldova)

Dmytro Kiosak , Valentin A. Dergaciov , Soenke Szidat , Willy Tinner

Sprawozdania Archeologiczne

Section: Field Survey and Materials

https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/75.2023.1.3212

Abstract

Four new AMS radiocarbon dates shed new light on the chronology of one of the easternmost sites of the Criş culture. The conventional dating efforts had yielded indecisive results, while the new results correspond well to the typo-chronological position of the site (Criş IV) and the chronology of other sites with similar finds. The comparison with the nearby para-Neolithic sites demonstrated that the establishment of the para Neolithic way of life (foragers equipped with pottery) in the region happened several centuries before the spread of early farmers of the Criş culture into Moldova.

Keywords:

Early Neolithic, radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, early farming colonization, indigenous foragers

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Kiosak, D., Dergaciov, V. A., Szidat, S., & Tinner, W. (2023). New radiocarbon dates for the Criş site of Sacarovca I (Moldova). Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 75(1), 175–182. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/75.2023.1.3212

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Dmytro Kiosak

dkiosak@ukr.net
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3349-4989

Affiliation:

I.I. Mechnikov Odessa National University, Ukraine

Valentin A. Dergaciov

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6095-2199

Affiliation:

Independent researcher, Moldova, Republic of

Soenke Szidat

Affiliation:

University of Bern, Switzerland

Willy Tinner

Affiliation:

Institute of Plant Sciences & Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland