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New AMS dates on human bone from Mesolithic Oronsay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

M. P. Richards  and
J. A. Sheridan
M. P. Richards
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England [email protected]
J. A. Sheridan
Affiliation:
National Museums of Scotland, Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Scotland
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Abstract

Continuing our focus on the Hebridean Mesolithic, this paper describes new dating on the human bone from Oronsay, showing that late Mesolithic occupation may coincide with the coming of the Neolithic.

Keywords

OronsayMesolithicHebrides. AMS datingpalaeodiet
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 284 , June 2000 , pp. 313 - 315
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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