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Major Revisions in the Pleistocene Age Assignments for North American Human Skeletons by C-14 Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: None Older Than 11,000 C-14 Years B.P.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

R. E. Taylor ,
L. A. Payen ,
C. A. Prior ,
P. J. Slota Jr. ,
R. Gillespie ,
J. A. J. Gowlett ,
R. E. M. Hedges ,
A. J. T. Jull ,
T. H. Zabel  and
D. J. Donahue
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R. E. Taylor
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside
L. A. Payen
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside
C. A. Prior
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside
P. J. Slota Jr.
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside
R. Gillespie
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University
J. A. J. Gowlett
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University
R. E. M. Hedges
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University
A. J. T. Jull
Affiliation:
NSF Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, University of Arizona
T. H. Zabel
Affiliation:
NSF Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, University of Arizona
D. J. Donahue
Affiliation:
NSF Accelerator Facility for Radioisotope Analysis, University of Arizona
R. Berger
Affiliation:
Isotope Laboratory, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

Radiocarbon analyses by accelerator mass spectrometric (AMS) techniques on organic fractions of human bone from various North American localities previously assigned ages ranging from about 70,000 to 15,000 years B.P. now suggest that none of these skeletons is older than 11,000 C-14 years B.P.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 136 - 140
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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