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Radiocarbon dating results from the Old World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

C. B. M. McBurney
C. B. M. McBurney*
Affiliation:
King's College, Cambridge
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The latest complete list of radiocarbon readings received from America brings the total number of dated sites and objects to upwards of 160. Of these 120 are from localities in the New World, and their archaeological implications have been reviewed by G. H. S, Bushneil in the last number of ANTIQUITY; the object of the present article is to do the same for the 40 odd results available from the Old World.

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Research-Article
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Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 101 , March 1952 , pp. 35 - 40
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1952

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References

1 See Cave Explorations in Iran, 1949, by C. S. Coon, the University Museum of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

2 Hitherto sometime in the 6th millennium B.C. has been regarded as the most probable date for Neolithic A, while a late 5th or early 4th has been envisaged for the Middle Predynastic.

1 As we go to press the following dates before the present are released for the Magdalenian in horizon at La Garenne (Neuvy St. Sepulchre, Indre), 11109±480, 12986±560 (both from carbonised bone), and 15847±1200 (ashey matter mixed with sand). (See Mem. Soc. American Archaeology No. 8, July 1951 ; the first date and locality omitted in error).

3 Before there had been any suggestion of taking a carbon sample.

4 Pradel, Bull. Soc. Prehist. Française, 1947, pp. 28-30 and 1945, pp. 84-93.

5 King and Oakley, Proc. Prehist. Soc., 1936, pp. 66-7.