Successful ams 14C dating of non-hydraulic lime mortars from the medieval churches of the a °land Islands, Finland

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 171-191

  Heinemeier, Jan ^a   Ringbom, Åsa ^b   Lindroos, Alf ^b   Sveinbjörnsdóttir, Árný E ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; MEDICINE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOCARBON DATING;

ALAND; FINLAND;

EID: 77953696870     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200045124     Document Type: Article

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