The sea peoples, from cuneiform tablets to carbon dating

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Kaniewski, David ^a,b,c   van Campo, Elise ^a,b   van Lerberghe, Karel ^c   Boiy, Tom ^c   Vansteenhuyse, Klaas ^c   Jans, Greta ^c   Nys, Karin ^d   Weiss, Harvey ^e   Morhange, Christophe ^f   Otto, Thierry ^a,b   Bretschneider, Joachim ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CIVILIZATION; HISTORY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SOUTHERN EUROPE; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; WRITING;

HUMANS; POPULATION GROUPS; RADIOMETRIC DATING; WRITING;

EID: 79958148913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0020232     Document Type: Article

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