THE FIRST C-14 DATING OF MONUMENTS IN EUROPEAN SCYTHIA

The first radiocarbon dates for the famous monuments of European Scyth ia were produced for the Kelermes, Seven Brothers, Solocha and Chertom lyk barrows (burial mounds) by both accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS ) and conventional methods. The obtained C-14 dates confirmed the trad itional archaeological chronology, which was based on the analysis of written data and typological comparisons of Scythian artifacts with si milar objects found in the Ancient East and Greece. The C-14 dates for the European Scythian monuments are compared with the Asian ones. The C-14 chronology of the European Scythian monuments shows chronologica l synchronisms between the Asiatic and European monuments. The calibra ted ages for the investigated barrows generally agree with the archaeo logical data.