A wiggle-matched date for the copper age cemetery at manerba del Garda, Northern Italy

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 984-1001

  Barfield, Lawrence H ^a   Manning, Sturt W ^b   Valzolgher, Erio ^c   Higham, Thomas F G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Ricerche Archeologiche snc Archäologische Untersuchungen OHG   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; PALEOBOTANY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SAMPLING; TIMBER;

BRESCIA; ITALY; LOMBARDY; MANERBA DEL GARDA;

EID: 78049273273     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200046087     Document Type: Article

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