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THE EXTERMINATION OF THE ANCIENT RUSSIAN CITY OF YAROSLAVL AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 13TH CENTURY: THE LONG JOURNEY TO EXACT DATING

Engovatova, Asya V, Cherkinsky, Alexander, Zaiseva, Ganna I·2020·Radiocarbon
DOI 10.1017/rdc.2020.137
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This paper raises methodological issues of radiocarbon (14 C) dating of historical events based on data obtained during the excavations of the Russian medieval city of Yaroslavl. The city is of special interest to our study because of the precise time of its destruction by troops of Batu Khan mentioned in chronicles—the winter of 1238. To date in Yaroslavl, researchers have discovered 9 mass burials of citizens and domestic animals buried sometime after the massacre by the Mongols. Mass burials of people alongside animals in a common grave and outside of the cemetery, in violation of Christian traditions, are not typical of medieval Russia and are a sign of a military catastrophe. To test this hypothesis, we dated a total of 65 samples representing all 9 mass burials. A Bayesian chronological model of the accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates narrowed the interval to the range of 1197–1280 cal AD, with the mean age of 1239 AD, consistent with the hypothesis that the studied mass burials of citizens and livestock are related to the capture of the city by the army of Batu Khan.

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Authors
Engovatova, A. V., Cherkinsky, A., & Zaiseva, G. I.
Affiliations
  • Institute of Archaeology (RU)
  • University of Georgia (US)
  • Institute of History of Material Culture (RU)
Corresponding author
Cherkinsky, Alexander
ORCID
Venue
Radiocarbon
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2020-12
Volume
62
Issue
6
Pages
1833-1844
ISSN
  • 0033-8222 (ISSN-L)
  • 1945-5755
DOI
10.1017/rdc.2020.137
OpenAlex
W3135524556
Cited by
3
References
12
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
FWCI
0.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 87 d)
Locations
Radiocarbon (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Viking Age and Medieval Scandinavia
Keywords
Yaroslavl, Mongol invasion of Rus', Batu Khan, mass burials, 13th century

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