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Non-Concordance of Radiocarbon and Amino Acid Racemization Deduced Age Estimates on Human Bone

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

R E Taylor
R E Taylor*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California
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Abstract

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Radiocarbon determinations, employing both decay and direct counting, were obtained on various organic fractions of four human skeletal samples previously assigned ages ranging from 28,000 to 70,000 years on the basis of their D/L aspartic acid racemization values. In all four cases, the 14C values require an order of magnitude reduction in age.

Type
VII. Archaeology
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 25 , Issue 2: 11th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1983 , pp. 647 - 654
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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