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The objective of this study is to provide a well-dated point for a future palaeosecular variation (PSV) reference curve for western Russia. For this purpose archaeomagnetic and magnetic property analyses were carried out on a pottery kiln unearthed at the UNESCO World Heritage site of ancient Bolgar, having a rather precise age dating. The archaeological context provided an age between 1340 and 1360 C.E. The characteristic remanence vector was determined through alternating field demagnetisation and Thellier-Thellier palaeointensity experiments. Some innovations were introduced regarding palaeointensity. The check testing the equality of blocking and unblocking temperature was redefined. This allowed waiving the commonly used additional zero-field cooling steps during the Thellier-Thellier experiment. Another innovation concerns the calculation of archaeointensity at structure level. A Bayesian approach was introduced for averaging individual specimen archaeointensities using a prior probability distribution of unknown uncertainties. Next, an additional prior probability distribution was used to correct for cooling rate effects. This resulted in a lower uncertainty compared to common practice and in eluding time consuming cooling rate experiments. The complex magnetic mineralogy consists of maghaemite, multi-domain haematite and Al-substituted haematite. Some samples contained also some non-stoichiometric magnetite. The magnetic mineralogy was determined through hysteresis loops, backfield and remanence decay curves, measurements of the frequency dependence of magnetic susceptibility and through low temperature magnetisation curves. Accompanying high-temperature thermomagnetic analyses revealed an excellent thermo-chemical stability of the studied specimens. Directions obtained from alternating field demagnetisation and those extracted from archaeointensity experiments are congruent and have low uncertainties. The obtained archaeomagnetic results are fairly in agreement with global geomagnetic field models and contemporary PSV data of the wider area. The geomagnetic field vector obtained for ancient Bolgar is of high quality, deserving thus its inclusion in a future PSV reference curve for European Russia.
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This article is devoted to our dear colleague Prof. Jozef Jan Edward Hus who passed away in early February 2020. Professor Hus was passionate about archaeomagnetism and strongly fostered its application in the archaeological community and amongst archaeomagnetists in Belgium and abroad. The authors, namely, S.S., D.M.K, L.R.K and D.K.N., would like to express their deepest appreciation to Prof. Hus for his support and encouragement in their archaeomagnetic research. The authors owe a very important debt to Karl Fabian and an anonymous reviewer for their constructive and encouraging comments and suggestions, as well as to Patrick Arneitz and Ramon Egli for a fruitful discussion and providing BIGMUDI4k. 1 model data for comparison. The authors are grateful to Maxwell Brown for verifying the CALS 10k.1b PSV model curve. L.R.K, and D.M.K acknowledge a research stay at the Geophysical Centre of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. The contribution of D.M.K was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project number 17-05-01246 and the one of D.K.N by the Russian Science Foundation project number 18-17-00251.
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Kosareva, L.R., Kuzina, D.M., Nurgaliev, D.K. et al. Archaeomagnetic investigations in Bolgar (Tatarstan). Stud Geophys Geod 64, 255–292 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11200-019-0493-3
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