Global archaeomagnetic data: The state of the art and future challenges

MC Brown, G Hervé, M Korte, A Genevey - Physics of the Earth and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Archaeomagnetic data are fundamental for our understanding of the evolution of Earth's
magnetic field on centennial to millennial timescales. From the earliest studies of the …

Refining Holocene geochronologies using palaeomagnetic records

M Korte, MC Brown, SR Gunnarson, A Nilsson… - Quaternary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The aperiodic nature of geomagnetic field variations, both in intensity and direction, can aid
in dating archaeological artefacts, volcanic rocks, and sediment records that carry a …

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 …

Two archaeomagnetic intensity maxima and rapid directional variation rates during the Early Iron Age observed at Iberian coordinates. Implications on the evolution of …

ML Osete, A Molina-Cardín, SA Campuzano… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Variations of geomagnetic field in the Iberian Peninsula prior to Late Iron Age times are
poorly constrained. Here we report 14 directional and 10 palaeointensity results from an …

Updated Iberian archeomagnetic catalogue: New full vector paleosecular variation curve for the last three millennia

A Molina‐Cardín, SA Campuzano… - Geochemistry …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, we present 16 directional and 27 intensity high‐quality values from Iberia.
Moreover, we have updated the Iberian archeomagnetic catalogue published more than 10 …

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 …

A Bayesian iterative geomagnetic model with universal data input: Self-consistent spherical harmonic evolution for the geomagnetic field over the last 4000 years

P Arneitz, R Egli, R Leonhardt, K Fabian - Physics of the Earth and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes of the Earth's magnetic field have been observed with varying spatial and
temporal resolution since the middle ages by means of compasses, and later by refined …

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 …

Dipole and nondipole evolution of the historical geomagnetic field from instrumental, archeomagnetic, and volcanic data

P Arneitz, R Leonhardt, R Egli… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although a large number of magnetic declination and inclination measurements are
available for the historical period from 1400 to 1900 CE, even the evolution of the axial …