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AMS Radiocarbon Dates for Pleistocene Fauna from the American Northeast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

Matthew T Boulanger ,
Gregory D Lattanzi ,
David C Parris ,
Michael J O'Brien  and
R Lee Lyman
Matthew T Boulanger*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri Research Reactor, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
Gregory D Lattanzi
Affiliation:
Bureau of Archaeology and Ethnography, New Jersey State Museum, 205 W. State Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, USA
David C Parris
Affiliation:
Bureau of Natural History, New Jersey State Museum, 205 W. State Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08625, USA
Michael J O'Brien
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
R Lee Lyman
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, USA
*
Corresponding author: [email protected].
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Abstract

Northeastern North America has produced an incredible number of late Pleistocene faunal remains; however, many of these were discovered and excavated prior to the development of radiocarbon dating. Moreover, many of the 14C dates that do exist for such specimens were assayed prior to the development of purified collagen extraction methods, were performed on botanical remains of unspecified association with the faunal remains, or were accepted without concerns of young-carbon contamination from museum preservatives. Here, we present a set of high-precision accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates obtained on Pleistocene faunal specimens from Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Our data contain both newly discovered specimens and specimens that have resided in museum collections for over a century.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , 2015 , pp. 189 - 192
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Copyright © 2015 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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