New AMS dates on human bone from Mesolithic Oronsay

1 June 2000

journal article
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Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Vol. 74 (284) , 313-315
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00059354

Abstract

Continuing our focus on the Hebridean Mesolithic, this paper describes new dating on the human bone from Oronsay, showing that late Mesolithic occupation may coincide with the coming of the Neolithic.

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