Dating charred soil organic matter: Comparison of radiocarbon ages from macrocharcoals and chemically separated charcoal carbon

Radiocarbon

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 437-443

  Eckmeier, Eileen ^a,b   Van Der Borg, Klaas ^c   Tegtmeier, Ursula ^d   Schmidt, Michael W I ^a   Gerlach, Renate ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e Rheinisches Amt B   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CHARCOAL; DATA SET; PHOTOOXIDATION; PREHISTORIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER;

EID: 67349284141     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200055831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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