This study presents 32 high-resolution geomagnetic intensity data points from Mesopotamia, spanning the 3rd to the 1st millennia BCE. These data contribute to rectifying geographic disparities in the resolution of the global archaeointensity curve that have hampered our understanding of geomagnetic field dynamics and the viability of applying archa...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
This study presents 32 high-resolution geomagnetic intensity data points from Mesopotamia, spanning the 3rd to the 1st millennia BCE. These data contribute to rectifying geographic disparities in the resolution of the global archaeointensity curve that have hampered our understanding of geomagnetic field dynamics and the viability of applying archa...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Fired archaeological objects have been widely studied in palaeomagnetic research. However, the uneven heating during the firing process can affected the type, grain size and magnetic domain characteristics of the magnetic carrier, which in turn can led to notable discrepancies in the paleomagnetic information that they captured. In this study, we c...
Lors d’une fouille de sauvetage en 1983, une abside semi-circulaire avait été découverte sous l’église Notre-Dame de la Place, à proximité de la cathédrale de Bordeaux. Le contexte de la découverte et un faisceau d’indices historiques et archéolo- giques avaient conduit à identifier ces vestiges comme ceux de l’église Sainte-Marie. Sur la base d’un...
Les quatre aqueducs du Gier, de la Brévenne, du Mont d’Or et de l’Yzeron ont été construits pour alimenter en eau la ville antique de Lyon/Lugdunum. La datation de ces aqueducs a longtemps posé question jusqu’à ces dernières années où l’archéologie préventive a permis d’apporter des données nouvelles. Des analyses radiocarbones, ainsi que des datat...
The Mesoamerican Postclassic and Epiclassic were periods of drastic change and transformation related to social, political and economic aspects as well as settlement patterns. Mexico’s northern boundary expansion, rise, and subsequent demise is a matter of debate which remains essentially unsolved. Possible causes include climatic changes, landscap...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
The Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Eastern texts describe Egyptian, Aramean, Assyrian, and Babylonian military campaigns to the Southern Levant during the 10th to sixth centuries BCE. Indeed, many destruction layers dated to this period have been unearthed in archaeological excavations. Several of these layers are securely linked to specific c...
Archaeomagnetic dating using full geomagnetic vector was performed on three furnaces cropping out at San Genesio archaeological zone, an ancient settlement located in the Arno River plain, near San Miniato (Pisa). The first evidence of human presence in this area dates back to the period between the VI century BCE and 1248 CE, when the village of S...
Published in Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth
Abstract—Reconstructing the evolution of the geomagnetic field in the European part of Russia has been an extremely challenging problem due to the still limited data meeting the up-to-date quality criteria. The paper presents the results of archaeomagnetic studies for five groups of fragments of baked clay bricks from architectural monuments of the...
Extensive spatial and temporal distribution of high-quality data are essential for understanding regional and global behaviors of the geomagnetic field. We carried out chronological and archaeomagnetic studies at the Angkor-era iron-smelting site of Tonle Bak in Cambodia in Southeast Asia, an area with no data available to date. We recovered high-f...
