Exploring geomagnetic variations in ancient Mesopotamia: Archaeomagnetic study of inscribed bricks from the 3rd–1st millennia BCE

MD Howland, L Tauxe, S Gordin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
This study presents 32 high-resolution geomagnetic intensity data points from Mesopotamia,
spanning the 3rd to the 1st millennia BCE. These data contribute to rectifying geographic …

Archaeomagnetism in the Levant and Mesopotamia reveals the largest changes in the geomagnetic field

R Shaar, Y Gallet, Y Vaknin, L Gonen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of geomagnetic field intensity prior to the era of direct instrumental
measurements relies on paleointensity analysis of rocks and archaeological materials that …

SCHA. DIF. 4k: 4,000 years of paleomagnetic reconstruction for Europe and its application for dating

FJ Pavón‐Carrasco, SA Campuzano… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since the publication of the European archaeomagnetic field model SCHA. DIF. 3k in 2009,
the number of paleomagnetic data derived from archaeological materials such as baked …

The time between Palaeolithic hearths

Á Herrejón-Lagunilla, JJ Villalaín, FJ Pavón-Carrasco… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Resolving the timescale of human activity in the Palaeolithic Age is one of the most
challenging problems in prehistoric archaeology. The duration and frequency of hunter …

An archaeomagnetic study of the Ishtar Gate, Babylon

A Di Chiara, L Tauxe, H Gries, B Helwing, MD Howland… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Data from the marriage of paleomagnetism and archaeology (archaeomagnetism) are the
backbone of attempts to create geomagnetic field models for ancient times. Paleointensity …

The Earth's magnetic field in Jerusalem during the Babylonian destruction: A unique reference for field behavior and an anchor for archaeomagnetic dating

Y Vaknin, R Shaar, Y Gadot, Y Shalev, O Lipschits… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Paleomagnetic analysis of archaeological materials is crucial for understanding the
behavior of the geomagnetic field in the past. As it is often difficult to accurately date the …

Geomagnetic field intensity changes in the Central Mediterranean between 1500 BCE and 150 CE: Implications for the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly evolution

M Rivero-Montero, M Gómez-Paccard… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
The magnitude and origin of the Levantine Iron Age geomagnetic Anomaly (LIAA), which
spanned the first half of the first millennium before the common era, are not yet well …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the last 100 ky of geomagnetic field variability using numerical dynamo simulations

SJ Mason, CJ Davies, AT Clarke… - Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent observational models of the paleomagnetic field have revealed new details about
geomagnetic field variability, which have yet to be adequately explored in numerical …

New archeomagnetic secular variation data from Central Europe, II: Intensities

E Schnepp, D Thallner, P Arneitz… - Physics of the Earth and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Variations of the geomagnetic field during the past millennia can be obtained by
investigating archeological material. The spatial distribution of the available data across …

Geomagnetic field intensity during the first millennium BCE from royal Judean storage jars: Constraining the duration of the Levantine Iron Age Anomaly

E Hassul, R Shaar, Y Vaknin, A Agnon… - Geochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The rich and extensively studied archaeological record of the Near East provides an
opportunity to develop a comprehensive archaeomagnetic dataset for exploring the …