Beyond the radiocarbon limit in Australian archaeology and Quaternary research
- 1 September 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Vol. 70 (269) , 543-552
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00083708
Abstract
Allen (1994) and Allen & Holdaway (1995), noticing the pattern in early radiocarbon dates from Australia, have advanced the notion their limit records the human settlement of the continent. A critical analysis of context and content in those carbon determinations leads to a different view. The results may be disconcerting for every region which builds its late Pleistocene chronologies on radiocarbon!Keywords
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