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Consensus δ13C Values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Richard Burleigh ,
Keith Matthews  and
Morven Leese
Richard Burleigh
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England
Keith Matthews
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England
Morven Leese
Affiliation:
Research Laboratory, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG, England
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Abstract

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Selected stable carbon isotope measurements published in Radiocarbon over a 12-year period have been abstracted, plotted, and summarized, to give more reliable estimates of the mean value and range of δ13C for five classes of natural material (human bone collagen, non-human animal bone collagen, plant materials, wood, and charcoal), and to provide a firmer base line for stable carbon isotope dietary and environmental studies.

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Research Article
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Radiocarbon , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , 1984 , pp. 46 - 53
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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