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Archaeomagnetic study of ceramics from the El Molon archaeological monument (Spain

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Data on the geomagnetic field intensity in the first millennium BC and the 8th–10th centuries AD are obtained from the study of materials from the El Molon archaeological monument (Spain). A 75-yr averaged curve of the variation in the geomagnetic field intensity in the area of the zero meridian over the last three millennia is constructed from a set of new and previously obtained data on the geomagnetic intensity variations in Spain and France. The field intensity smoothly decreases in the time interval studied, and variations a few centuries long are superimposed on this trend. Unlike the present-day relationship, the average level of the geomagnetic field intensity in Spain in the first millennium BC was higher than in the Caucasus.

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  1. Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bol’shaya Gruzinskaya ul. 10, Moscow, 123995, Russia

    I. E. Nachasova & K. S. Burakov

  2. Department of Ancient History, University of Alicante, Spain

    A. J. Lorrio

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Original Russian Text © I.E. Nachasova, K.S. Burakov, A.J. Lorrio, 2007, published in Fizika Zemli, 2007, No. 10, pp. 35–40.

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Nachasova, I.E., Burakov, K.S. & Lorrio, A.J. Archaeomagnetic study of ceramics from the El Molon archaeological monument (Spain. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 43, 830–835 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351307100059

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