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Pretoria Calibration Curve for Short-Lived Samples, 1930–3350 BC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J. C. Vogel ,
AnneMarie Fuls ,
Ebbie Visser  and
Bernd Becker
J. C. Vogel
Affiliation:
Quaternary Dating Research Unit, CSIR, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
AnneMarie Fuls
Affiliation:
Quaternary Dating Research Unit, CSIR, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
Ebbie Visser
Affiliation:
Quaternary Dating Research Unit, CSIR, P.O. Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa
Bernd Becker
Affiliation:
Institut für Botanik, Universität Hohenheim, D-7000 Stuttgart 70 Germany
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The high-precision radiocarbon calibration curve for short-lived samples (1–4 yr) of the early historical period (3rd millennium BC) presented previously (Vogel et al. 1986) has been further substantiated and extended to link with a similar curve produced by de Jong for part of the 4th millennium BC (de Jong & Mook 1980). The precise dendrochronological age of the sample set measured by de Jong has finally been fixed (de Jong, Mook & Becker 1989), so that the two sets now cover the period 1930–3900 BC, i.e., the Early Bronze Age and Late Chalcolithic periods of the Middle East. The standard calibration curve for the two sets is presented by Vogel and van der Plicht (1993).

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Radiocarbon , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , 1993 , pp. 73 - 85
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