A response to Finkelstein and Piasetzky's criticism and "new perspective"

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1681-1688

  Mazar, Amihai ^a   Ramsey, Christopher Bronk ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DATA SET; IRON AGE; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOCARBON DATING;

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EID: 78650789876     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200056411     Document Type: Article

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