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Radiocarbon: where we are and where we need to be

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

B.S. Ottaway
B.S. Ottaway*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford BD7 1DP
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Abstract

Preceding papers in this section have underlined how much more there is to effective use of radiocarbon dating than the taking of some samples, their running in a laboratory, and the calibration of the individual dates that result. Here is a summary of where we are and where we may, with calibration, be going.

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Antiquity , Volume 61 , Issue 231 , March 1987 , pp. 135 - 136
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1987

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