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A Pennsylvania Transitional Period Radiocarbon Date

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W. Fred Kinsey
W. Fred Kinsey*
Affiliation:
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October, 1967
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Abstract

The Peters-Albrecht site in the upper Delaware Valley in Pennsylvania has yielded a radiocarbon date of 1720 B.C. ± 100 (Y-1826) for the Lehigh complex of the Transitional period. This is the earliest date for this complex, and it poses some problems of correlation with respect to the Late Archaic sequence in New York. Regional manifestations of the Transitional period are discussed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 245 - 247
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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