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High-Precision Calibration of the Radiocarbon Time Scale, 500–2500 bc

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Gordon W Pearson
Affiliation:
Palaeoecology Centre, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Minze Stuiver
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences and Quaternary Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195
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This paper is a twin paper to that of Stuiver and Pearson (1986) which covers the time period ad 1950–500 bc. The combined radiocarbon ages of dendrochronologically dated wood presented in this paper covers the time period 500–2500 bc.

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