Radiocarbon dating of "old" charcoal using a wet oxidation, stepped-combustion procedure

Radiocarbon

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-140

  Bird, M I ^a   Ayliffe, L K ^a   Fifield, L K ^a,b   Tumey, C S M ^a   Cresswell, R G ^a   Barrows, T T ^a,b   David, B ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARCOAL; OXIDATION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0033396627     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200019482     Document Type: Article

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