Dating the end of the Greek Bronze Age: A robust radiocarbon-based chronology from Assiros Toumba

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Wardle, Kenneth ^a   Higham, Thomas ^b   Kromer, Bernd ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Akademie der Wissenschaften Heidelberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIQUITY; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BRONZE AGE; CERAMICS; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GREECE; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; HISTORY; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYES THEOREM; GREECE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

EID: 84907164581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0106672     Document Type: Article

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