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Non-Concordance of Radiocarbon and Amino Acid Racemization Deduced Age Estimates on Human Bone

Year: 1983

Type: article

Abstract: Radiocarbon determinations, employing both decay and direct counting, were obtained on various organic fractions of four human skeletal samples previously assigned ages ranging from 28,000 to 70,000 years on the basis of their D/L aspartic acid racemization values. In all four cases, the 14C values require an order of magnitude reduction in age.

Source: Radiocarbon

DOI: 10.1017/s003382220000597x

Author: R E Taylor

Institution: University of California, Riverside

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, University of Arizona

Awards: Dating the Last 100,000 Years of Hominid Evolution, The Accuracy of Radiocarbon and Amino Acid Racemization Dating Of/Pleistocene Age