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Middle and Upper Palaeolithic environments and the calibration of 14C dates beyond 10,000 BP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Tjeerd H. van Andel
Tjeerd H. van Andel*
Affiliation:
Godwin Institute of Quaternary Research and Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, England
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Abstract

Advances in our understanding of the Quaternary history of the earth's magnetic field provide the means to correct the radiocarbon time-scale for long-term (millennia) deviations from the calendrical one beyond the upper limit of the tree-ring-based calibration. The conversion is essential when Middle and Upper Palaeolithic archaeological sites are to be placed within the context of the complex climatic history of the last glacial interval and following deglaciation.

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 275 , March 1998 , pp. 26 - 33
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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