Is Radiocarbon Dating Obsolescent for Archaeologists?
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Radiocarbon
- Vol. 28 (2A) , 732-738
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200007967
Abstract
This paper will deal with two major points: 1) the lack of feedback between archaeologists supplying samples and using radiocarbon dating, and physicists carrying out 14C dating measurements; and 2) the problem of calibrating groups of 14C dates in a statistically meaningful way.Keywords
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