Dating materials in good archaeological contexts: The next challenge for radiocarbon analysis

Radiocarbon

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 275-281

  Boaretto, Elisabetta ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHARCOAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PHYTOLITH; RADIOCARBON DATING; TYPOLOGY;

EID: 79954553289     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200033804     Document Type: Article

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