The end of the Chalcolithic period in the South Jordan Valley: New 14C determinations from Teleilat Ghassul, Jordan

Radiocarbon

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 315-323

  Bourke, Stephen ^a   Zoppi, Ugo ^b   Meadows, John ^c   Hua, Quan ^b   Gibbins, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14; GRAPHITE;

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; HOLOCENE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

BAYES THEOREM; CEREAL; CHRONOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; JORDAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLIVE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ASIA; EURASIA; JORDAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 3543142500     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003382220003962X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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