Chronological Modelling of the Chalcolithic Settlement Layers at Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria

Abstract

This article publishes a new series of radiocarbon dates from Tell Yunatsite, Southern Bulgaria. Context-based excavations undertaken over a large surface area, as well as a small test trench, provided a long stratigraphic sequence (11 ‘building levels’) covering a large part of the Chalcolithic period in Thrace (5th millennium BCE). Bayesian statistics and Gaussian Monte Carlo Wiggle Matching were employed to achieve a fine chronology for the multilayered tell. Implications and problems on the application of the calibration curve for the Late and Final Chalcolithic in Bulgaria are also discussed. IZVLE∞EK – V ≠lanku predstavljamo novo serijo radiokarbonskih datumov s tela Yunatsite v ju∫ni Bolgariji.S pomo≠jo v kontekste usmerjenih velikih izkopnih povr∏in in manj∏ih testnih sond smo prepoznali dolgo startigrafsko sekvenco (11 ‘gradbenih nivojev’), ki pokriva velik del halkolitskega obdobja v Trakiji (peto tiso≠letje pred na∏im ∏tetjem). Za natan≠no kronologijo ve≠slojnega tela sta bili uporabljeni Bayesova statistika in Gaussovo Monte Carlo usklajevanje krivulje. Poleg tega smo analizirali tudi posledice in probleme uporabe kalibracijske krivulje pri datiranju poznega in kon≠nega halkolitika v Bolgariji.