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Bell Beakers in Spain and Portugal: working with radiocarbon dates in the 3rd millennium BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard J. Harrison
Richard J. Harrison*
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Department of Classics arid Archacology, University of Bristol, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 ITH
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The recommended Belfast/Seattle radiocarbon calibration (Pearson 1987) coming into common use gives us ‘good’ portions, where the calibration curve has a shape that aids in refining dates, and ‘sloughs of despond’ - the periods when the shape of the curve is less helpful. Two deep sloughs arefound in the last few centuries ncand in the 3rd millennium BC. Here, a series of new determinations are presented for Bell Beakers in Spain, falling in the 3rd-millennium slough, and it is shown what can and cannot be learnt from these and their calibration.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 236 , September 1988 , pp. 464 - 472
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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