From dates to demography in later prehistoric Ireland? Experimental approaches to the meta-analysis of large 14C data-sets

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 433-438

  Armit, Ian ^a   Swindles, Graeme T ^b   Becker, Katharina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AMS; Demography; Ireland; Radiocarbon; Summed probability functions

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IRON AGE; META-ANALYSIS; PREHISTORIC; PROBABILITY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

IRELAND;

EID: 84867903207     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.039     Document Type: Article

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