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No Systematic Early Bias to Mediterranean14C Ages: Radiocarbon Measurements from Tree-Ring and Air Samples Provide Tight Limits to Age Offsets

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: Existing data and theory do not support a recent assertion that upwelling of old carbon has led to systematically 100–300 yr too old radiocarbon ages for the Mediterranean region. Similarly, the prehistoric tree-ring record produced over 3 decades by the Aegean Dendrochronology Project is shown to provide robust, well-replicated data, contrary to a recent unfounded assertion.14C and dendrochronology provide an accurate and precise chronometric framework for the Mediterranean region.

Source: Radiocarbon

DOI: 10.1017/s0033822200032197

Authors: Sturt W Manning, Mike Barbetti, Bernd Kromer, Peter Ian Kuniholm, Ingeborg Levin, Maryanne W Newton, Paula J Reimer

Institutions: University of Reading, The University of Sydney, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Cornell University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Language: English

Topic: Archaeology and ancient environmental studies

Subfield: Paleontology

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Institute for Aegean Prehistory, University of the Aegean, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Awards: G1101028137, G1702950523, The Prehistory of the Eastern Mediterranean: Dendrochonological, Radiocarbon, and Dendrochemical Approaches, G3177268909, G6445123630

OpenAlex ID: W2472178494

FWCI: 1.419

Cites: 86

Cited by: 10

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