Can we use cosmogenic isotopes to date stone artifacts?

Radiocarbon

Volumn 43, Issue 2 PART II, 2001, Pages 759-764

  Ivy Ochs, Susan ^a   Wüst, Raphael ^b   Kubik, Peter W ^a   Müller Beck, Hansjürgen ^c   Schlüchter, Christian ^d  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPE; LIMESTONE;

ARTIFACT; BERYLLIUM; CHERT; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DATING METHOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PALEOLITHIC;

ARTIFACT; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; EOCENE; EXTRACTION; GEOLOGICAL ERA;

EGYPT;

EID: 0035570690     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200041424     Document Type: Article

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