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Using radiocarbon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sheridan Bowman
Affiliation:
Department of Scientific Research, British Museum, London WC1B 3DG
Nick Balaam
Affiliation:
13 Corinne Road, London N19 5EZ

Abstract

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1990

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Footnotes

It is three years since ANTIQUITY published a radiocarbon special section. Now is the time to summarize the directions in which the radiocarbon world has moved since 1987, as usual with important consequences for archaeologists.

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