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AMS Radiocarbon Dating of Bone Samples from the Xinzhai Site in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Kexin Liu ,
Baoxi Han ,
Zhiyu Guo ,
Xiaohong Wu ,
Sixun Yuan ,
Walter Kutschera ,
Hongji Ma ,
Alfred Priller ,
Peter Steier  and
Eva Maria Wild
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Kexin Liu*
Affiliation:
Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, Peking University and Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Physics, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100871, China
Baoxi Han
Affiliation:
Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, Peking University and Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Physics, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100871, China
Zhiyu Guo
Affiliation:
Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, Peking University and Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Physics, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100871, China
Xiaohong Wu
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Sixun Yuan
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
Walter Kutschera
Affiliation:
Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA), Institut für Isotopenforschung und Kernphysik, Universitat Wien, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Hongji Ma
Affiliation:
Institute of Heavy Ion Physics, Peking University and Key Laboratory of Heavy Ion Physics, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100871, China
Alfred Priller
Affiliation:
Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA), Institut für Isotopenforschung und Kernphysik, Universitat Wien, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Peter Steier
Affiliation:
Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA), Institut für Isotopenforschung und Kernphysik, Universitat Wien, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Eva Maria Wild
Affiliation:
Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA), Institut für Isotopenforschung und Kernphysik, Universitat Wien, A-1090 Wien, Austria
Chunqing Zhao
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected].
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Xinzhai is an important archaeological site discovered 40 yr ago and recently re-excavated in the Henan Province, China. It is believed that the cultural characteristics of the Xinzhai site correspond to the Xia dynasty, the first ancient dynasty of China. Radiocarbon measurements on bone samples from this site were performed at the Peking University AMS facility (PKU-AMS) and the Vienna University AMS facility (VERA). Calibrated ages were obtained with the computer program OxCal. The results of these measurements are presented and the related chronology is discussed.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , 2005 , pp. 21 - 25
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Copyright © 2005 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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