Mass spectrometric radiocarbon dates from three rock paintings of known age

American Antiquity

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 471-480

  Armitage, Ruth A ^a,e   Brady, James E ^b   Cobb, Allan ^c   Southon, John R ^d   Rowe, Marvin W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^d LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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DOI: 10.2307/2694245     Document Type: Article

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