The influence of pretreatment chemistry on the radiocarbon dating of Campanian Ignimbrite-aged charcoal from Kostenki 14 (Russia)

Quaternary Research

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 583-587

  Douka, Katerina ^a   Higham, Thomas ^a   Sinitsyn, Andrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

ABOX SC; Campanian Ignimbrite; Charcoal; Kostenki 14; Palaeolithic; Radiocarbon dating

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CAMPANIAN; CHARCOAL; IGNIMBRITE; PALEOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEPHRA;

KOSTENKI; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; VORONEZH [RUSSIAN FEDERATION];

EID: 77952271901     PISSN: 00335894     EISSN: 10960287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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