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Reservoir Correction for the Central and North Kuril Islands in North Pacific Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2017

Ben Fitzhugh  and
William A Brown
Ben Fitzhugh*
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Dept. of Anthropology, Box 353100, Seattle, WA 98195-3100USA
William A Brown
Affiliation:
University of Washington, Dept. of Anthropology, Box 353100, Seattle, WA 98195-3100USA
*
*Corresponding author. Email: fitzhugh@uw.edu.
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Abstract

We present new marine reservoir ΔR correction terms for the central and northern Kuril Islands. We estimate ΔR from a series of archaeological charcoal-shell pairs from two archaeological sites using standard calibration procedures and Monte Carlo simulation. The combined ΔR estimate for all paired samples for the Kuril samples is 508±127 yr. In the context of available North Pacific Rim ΔR estimates, the new Kuril data support the interpretation of a well-mixed, 14C-depleted North Pacific Subarctic Gyre. For the broader subarctic North Pacific region, a ΔR estimate in the range of 440±127 yr is a reasonable correction for any coastal marine shell date, and may be applied to fish and marine mammal dates for taxa known to reside within these waters throughout their life-histories. This generalization fails as one moves south from Hokkaido along the East Asian coast. There, well-equilibrated subtropical water minimize the ΔR offset.

Keywords

Delta-RKuril IslandsNorth Pacificreservoir correction
Type
Research Article
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Radiocarbon , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 441 - 452
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© 2017 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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