Mussels with meat: Bivalve tissue-shell radiocarbon age differences and archaeological implications

Radiocarbon

Volumn 54, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 953-965

  Fernandes, Ricardo ^a   Bergemann, Stefanie ^a   Hartz, Sönke ^b   Grootes, Pieter M ^a   Nadeau, Marie Josée ^a   Melzner, Frank ^c   Rakowski, Andrzej ^a   Hüls, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b Stiftung Schleswig Holsteinische Landesmuseen   (Germany)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIVALVE; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; PRESERVATION; RADIOCARBON DATING;

BIVALVIA; MOLLUSCA;

EID: 84873835663     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200047597     Document Type: Article

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