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Radiocarbon dates from archaeological rat bones: the Pleasant River case
Author(s) -
Smith Ian,
Anderson Atholl
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
archaeology in oceania
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1834-4453
pISSN - 0728-4896
DOI - 10.1002/j.1834-4453.1998.tb00408.x
Subject(s) - radiocarbon dating , archaeology , geology , divergence (linguistics) , geography , philosophy , linguistics
AMS radiocarbon determinations on rat bone gelatin from Pleasant River, New Zealand, are presented. These differ significantly from radiocarbon ages for the same deposits on multiple samples of other materials, and in conjunction with previously reported data from Shag River Mouth show a consistent pattern of divergence between the results from two laboratories suggesting that pretreatment or other laboratory procedures may have influenced the results.