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Archaeomagnetic study of ceramics from the Neolithic Los Castillejos multilayer monument (Montefrio, Spain)

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The geomagnetic intensity variation from the middle of the 4th millennium BC to the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC is reconstructed from the archaeomagnetic study of ceramic material taken from 24 layers of the Los Castillejos monument (Montefrio, Spain). The general patterns of the geomagnetic intensity variation reconstructed by studying materials from the Cendres Cave and Los Castillejos monuments (Spain) are similar. The intensity level is revised in the time interval including the minimum of the “fundamental” oscillation of the geomagnetic field; the characteristics of geomagnetic intensity variations whose superposition can provide the intensity variation observed in the study time interval are determined. Constraints on the climate humidity variation over the settlement lifetime are obtained from heating-induced variations in the magnetic susceptibility of the ceramics.

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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 Prehistory and Archaeology, Granada University, Spain

    F. Molina & J. A. Cámara

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Original Russian Text © I.E. Nachasova, K.S. Burakov, F. Molina, J.A. Cámara, 2007, published in Fizika Zemli, 2007, No. 2, pp. 76–83.

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Nachasova, I.E., Burakov, K.S., Molina, F. et al. Archaeomagnetic study of ceramics from the Neolithic Los Castillejos multilayer monument (Montefrio, Spain). Izv., Phys. Solid Earth 43, 170–176 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1069351307020073

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