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Radiocarbon dates and absolute chronology of the central European Early Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stašo Forenbaher
Stašo Forenbaher*
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Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX 75275-0336, USA
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Abstract

It is more than forty years now since the first radiocarbon dates began the reconciliation of conventional and absolute chronologies for later prehistory. This pioneering radiocarbon chronology for the Bronze Age sequence in Central Europe brings that process nearer to a close, by filling the last major gap in the radiocarcbon chronology of the European continent.

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Antiquity , Volume 67 , Issue 255 , June 1993 , pp. 218 - 256
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1993

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