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Beyond the radiocarbon limit in Australian archaeology and Quaternary research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

John Chappell ,
John Head  and
John Magee
John Chappell
Affiliation:
Division of Archaeology & Natural History, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
John Head
Affiliation:
Division of Archaeology & Natural History, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
John Magee
Affiliation:
Division of Archaeology & Natural History, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia
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Allen (1994) and Allen & Holdaway (1995), noticing the pattern in early radiocarbon dates from Australia, have advanced the notion their limit records the human settlement of the continent. A critical analysis of context and content in those carbon determinations leads to a different view. The results may be disconcerting for every region which builds its late Pleistocene chronologies on radiocarbon!

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 543 - 552
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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