ESTIMATION OF THE AGE OF A PRE-INDUSTRIAL IRON SITE IN KOREA*

Authors: PARK, J. S.; NAKAMURA, T.¹; PRICE, D. M.²

Source: Archaeometry, Volume 47, Number 4, November 2005 , pp. 861-868(8)

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Abstract:

A pre-industrial iron-smelting site in Korea, whose period of active use is placed on typological grounds between the eighth and 18th centuriesad, has been dated using accelerator mass spectrometry and thermoluminescence. The ages of two charcoal samples were 77 ± 25 and 81 ± 25 yearsbp, with the calibrated date for both ranging fromad1700 toad1955, while a clay fragment dated toad1650 ± 50. The results from typology and radiocarbon seem insignificant due to the considerable uncertainties involved, but in combination with the thermoluminescence result they place the most probable date of the site at aroundad1700.

Keywords: KOREA; ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; THERMOLUMINESCENCE; IRON SITE; CHARCOAL; CLAY; AGE

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4754.2005.00237.x

Affiliations: 1: Tandetron AMS 14C Dating Laboratory, Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya, 464-8602, Japan 2: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia

Publication date: 2005-11-01