Reply to Mulrooney et al.: Accepting lower precision radiocarbon dates results in longer colonization chronologies for East Polynesia

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

Volumn 108, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Wilmshurst, Janet M ^a   Hunt, Terry L ^b   Lipo, Carl P ^c   Anderson, Atholl J ^d  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ACCURACY; ARCHEOLOGY; CHRONOLOGY; DATA BASE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POLYNESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 79959370427     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101348108     Document Type: Letter

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