Problems in the measurement, calibration, analysis, and communication of radiocarbon dates (with special reference to the prehistory of the Aegean world)

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 423-434

  Wiener, Malcolm H ^a  

^a Institute for Aegean Prehistory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CALIBRATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RADIOCARBON DATING; RESERVOIR; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84873829123     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200047184     Document Type: Article

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