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The Impact of Radiocarbon Dating on Old World Archaeology: Past Achievements and Future Expectations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

O Bar-Yosef
O Bar-Yosef*
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Peabody Museum, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA. Email: [email protected].
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Half a century since radiocarbon was first used in the archaeology of the Old World, it seems that the expectations of W F Libby may be becoming a reality. In 1952 (Libby 1952:97), he wrote:

Archaeologists, geologists and palynologists are continually searching for the means to improve methods of counting time. The … relative chronologies lack precision and direct correlation with the calendar, except when they may be checked with, … for example, the calendar based on tree-ring counts.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , 2000 , pp. 23 - 39
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Copyright © 2000 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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