High-precision dating of colonization and settlement in East Polynesia

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Mulrooney, Mara A ^a   Bickler, Simon H ^b   Allen, Melinda S ^a   Ladefoged, Thegn N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b Bickler Consultants   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ACCURACY; CHRONOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; POLYNESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIOSENSITIVITY;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HUMANS; POLYNESIA; RADIOMETRIC DATING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959331859     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1100447108     Document Type: Letter

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