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Thoughts on radiocarbon dating

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Euan MacKie ,
John Collis ,
D. W. Ewer ,
Alan Smith ,
Hans Suess  and
Colin Renfrew
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Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 179 , September 1971 , pp. 197 - 204
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1971

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This discussion began with some thoughts on radiocarbon dating sent to us by Euan W. MacKie of the University of Glasgow and arising out of the symposium on the Impact of the Natural Sciences on Archaeology held jointly by the Royal Society and the British Academy in December 1969. At the same time we had received comments from John Collis, Lecturer in Archaeology in the University of Exeter, and Professor D. W. Ewer of the Department of Zoology in the University of Ghana. We print these with comments by Dr A. G. Smith, of Queen's University, Belfast, Dr Hans Suess, and Dr A. C. Renfrew.

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