Construction of Geomagnetic Secular Variation Curve (SVC) for the Territory of Georgia

Author: Guram Kutelia
Co-authors: M. Devidze
Keywords: Magnetic variation curve, Caucasus
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Construction of Geomagnetic Secular Variation Curve (SVC) for the Territory of Georgia Archaeometric dating techniques are nowadays commonly applied as routine tools in archaeological studies. Quite a number of techniques are available and the choice of the most suitable depends on several factors, as the typology of materials studied, their preservation, their absolute chronology and finally the accuracy of the method. During the last decades, archaeomagnetism has established great progress in reconstructing chronologies of baked sediments, archaeological features and volcanic rocks. The ability to yield absolute ages mainly depends on our knowledge about the past secular variation of the Earth's magnetic field for a given territory, and so on the existence of well-detailed and reliable reference curves. To construct such a curve for the Caucasus and particularly for Georgia is necessary accurately dated archaeomagnetic studies which have been carried out on well-dated and undisturbed since firing archaeological structures and volcanic deposits.