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Accuracy of the Radiocarbon Time Scale Beyond 15,000 BP

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J C Vogel
J C Vogel*
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CSIR, Box 395, Pretoria, South Africa
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Abstract

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Ionium dates for the Upper Lisan Formation in the Dead Sea valley average (10 ± 3) percent higher than a set of radiocarbon dates from the same profiles. No analytical explanation can be found so that the discrepancy may be real for the period 15,000 BP to 35,000 BP (conventional radiocarbon years). This would have implications for the chronology of the Upper Pleistocene.

Type
Natural 14C Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , 1980 , pp. 210 - 218
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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