Towards an absolute chronology for the Aegean iron age: New radiocarbon dates from Lefkandi, Kalapodi and Corinth

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Toffolo, Michael B ^a,b   Fantalkin, Alexander ^b   Lemos, Irene S ^c   Felsch, Rainer C S ^d   Niemeier, Wolf Dietrich ^e   Sanders, Guy D R ^f   Finkelstein, Israel ^b   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c MERTON COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Haferkamp 3c   (Germany)

^e GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f American School of Classical Studies at Athens   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; GREECE; HISTORY; IRON AGE; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; PROTOGEOMETRIC PERIOD; SUBMYCENAEAN PERIOD;

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACTS; GREECE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84891302277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083117     Document Type: Article

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