Non-Concordance of Radiocarbon and Amino Acid Racemization Deduced Age Estimates on Human Bone
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Radiocarbon
- Vol. 25 (2) , 647-654
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s003382220000597x
Abstract
Radiocarbon determinations, employing both decay and direct counting, were obtained on various organic fractions of four human skeletal samples previously assigned ages ranging from 28,000 to 70,000 years on the basis of their D/L aspartic acid racemization values. In all four cases, the 14C values require an order of magnitude reduction in age.Keywords
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