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Radiocarbon Dating of the Organic Portion of Ceramic and Wattle-and-Daub House Construction Materials of Low Carbon Content

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

R. E. Taylor  and
Rainer Berger
R. E. Taylor
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles, California
Rainer Berger
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles, California
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Abstract

Radiocarbon determinations on a series of low-carbon-content ceramic and wattle-and-daub samples were made to determine the validity of radiocarbon dates based on these types of sample materials. Good agreement between radiocarbon dates obtained from the ceramic samples and from charcoal samples stratigraphically associated with the ceramics suggests that radiocarbon dates obtained on low-carbon-content ceramic materials are reliable if appropriate precautions are observed. The confidence which can be placed on radiocarbon dates obtained on wattle-and-daub sample materials is, at present, somewhat less secure. Problems in the use of these sample materials are discussed.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , July 1968 , pp. 363 - 366
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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