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New AMS 14C Dates from The Early Upper Paleolithic Sequence of Raqefet Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

György Lengyel*
Affiliation:
Herman Ottó Museum, 28 Görgey Street, Miskolc, 3529 Hungary
Elisabetta Boaretto
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Dating and Cosmogenic Isotopes Laboratory, Environmental Science and Energy Research Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel
Laurent Fabre
Affiliation:
Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel
Avraham Ronen
Affiliation:
Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel The Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Emek Yezreel 19300, Israel
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Corresponding author. Email: lengyelgu@freemail.hu
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