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Geomagnetic Field Record in Ceramics of the Central East European Plain in III–II Millennia B.C.

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Abstract—Archaeomagnetic studies have been carried out for the ceramics from cultural deposits of multilayered archaeological monuments Sakhtysh I and Sakhtysh II in the Ivanovo region of the Russian Federation. The data on the changes of the geomagnetic field intensity in the central region of the East European (Russian) plain in the second half of III millennium B.C.—first third of II millennium B.C. are obtained. The average level of the geomagnetic field intensity on the studied time interval (~50 μT) is significantly higher than the average field intensity (~40 μT) in IV–first half of III millennium B.C. Based on the combination of data obtained by the archaeomagnetic studies of ceramics from the Neolithic and Bronze Age multilayer monuments Sakhtysh I and Sakhtysh II, the characteristic time of the variation in the geomagnetic field intensity on this time interval is estimated at ~1600–1800 years. A similar variation is clearly traced for Eurasia for the last four millennia, which testifies to the stability of variations over time.

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We are grateful to G.P. Markov for supporting us in working on the paper.

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The study was carried out based on the IPE RAS Research Equipment Sharing Center in partial fulfillment of IPE RAS state contract no. 0144-2019-0006 and supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research under project no. 19-55-18006.

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    I. E. Nachasova & O. V. Pilipenko

  2. Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117292, Moscow, Russia

    Yu. B. Tsetlin

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Nachasova, I.E., Pilipenko, O.V. & Tsetlin, Y.B. Geomagnetic Field Record in Ceramics of the Central East European Plain in III–II Millennia B.C.. Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 58, 203–215 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351322020094

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