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The Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect on Adak Island (Central Aleutian Islands), Alaska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 February 2016

Bulat F Khasanov ,
Toshio Nakamura ,
Mitsuru Okuno ,
Ekaterina N Gorlova ,
Olga A Krylovich ,
Dixie L West ,
Virginia Hatfield  and
Arkady B Savinetsky
Bulat F Khasanov*
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Historical Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow 119071, Russia
Toshio Nakamura
Affiliation:
Center for Chronological Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
Mitsuru Okuno
Affiliation:
Department of Earth System Science, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan AIG Collaborative Research Institute for International Study on Eruptive History and Informatics, Fukuoka University, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan
Ekaterina N Gorlova
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Historical Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow 119071, Russia
Olga A Krylovich
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Historical Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow 119071, Russia
Dixie L West
Affiliation:
Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
Virginia Hatfield
Affiliation:
Hatfield Archaeological Services, LLC, Lubbock, Texas 79410, USA
Arkady B Savinetsky
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Historical Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Evolution RAS, Moscow 119071, Russia
*
2.Corresponding author. Email: bulatfk@gmail.com.
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Abstract

Radiocarbon dates (n = 18) from three archaeological sites on Adak Island, Alaska, were analyzed to understand the marine reservoir offset. Samples of marine and terrestrial origins recovered from the same archaeological context were compiled in nine pairs. The mean ΔR value calculated for them totaled 545 ± 10 yr. This value can be regarded as a sound estimate of the marine reservoir offset in the central Aleutians.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 57 , Issue 5 , 2015 , pp. 955 - 964
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Copyright © 2015 The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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