An AMS dated late Bronze Age grave from the mound necropolis at Paulje

Abstract

The subject of the paper is a closed entity - an incineration grave from northwest Serbia, dated to the developed Bronze Age, with an absolute date obtained by AMS (Accelerator mass spectrometry). The sample was taken from the wooden support on which the urn with the bones of the deceased and bronze jewellery was placed. The date obtained corresponds to the 14th century B.C. and confirms earlier proposed suppositions concerning the chronological determination of the necropolises from the territory of Jadar, Podgorina and Lower Podrinje. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. OI177020: Archaeology of Serbia: cultural identity, integration factors, technological processes and the role of Central Balkans in the development of European prehistory]

Keywords

• AMS date
• developed Bronze Age
• mound
• incineration grave
• northwest Serbia
• Paulje
• bronze jewellery