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AMS Radiocarbon Dates from Three Shellmounds in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Tsim D Schneider*
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Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, 2251 College Building, Berkeley, California 94720-1076, USA. Email: tsim@berkeley.edu.
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This paper presents a set of accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dates obtained from various archaeological samples collected from 3 shellmounds—CA-MRN-114, CA-MRN-115, and CA-MRN-328—within China Camp State Park, Marin County, California, USA.

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