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The rongorongo tablets from Easter Island: botanical identification and 14C dating.(Research Report)
Archaeology in Oceania; 10/1/2005; Orliac, Catherine; 787 words
; ... Easter Island, Rapa Nui, rongorongo, Thespesia populnea, 14C dating. ********** Today's palaeographic linguists agree to qualify ... botanical identification of seven rongorongo tablets and the 14C dating for one of them should allow a better understanding of their ...
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Accelerator radiocarbon dating of the initial Upper Palaeolithic in southeast Siberia.
Antiquity; 6/1/1995; Goebel, Ted Aksenov, Mikhail; 787 words
; ... just beyond the limit of radiocarbon (14C) dating, 5030,000 years ago (b.p.). Until recently ... Straus & Heller 1988: 99), but AMS 14C, thermoluminescence and uranium-series dating methods now show that the earliest Upper ... At Kara-Bom, southwest Siberia, AMS 14C determinations from a ...
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Perspectives and potentials for absolute dating prehistoric rock paintings.
Antiquity; 3/1/1993; Watchman, Alan; 787 words
; Approaches to dating rock paintings The processes and materials ... authentication strategies to the absolute dating of rock paintings. However, some of these approaches are unsuitable for dating prehistoric rock paintings. For instance, dating the rock beneath paintings will yield ... approaches are ...
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NSW; Radiocarbon dating to help identify illegal drug stockpiles
AAP General News (Australia); 1/8/2003; 330 words
; 00-00-0000 NSW; Radiocarbon dating to help identify illegal drug stockpiles By Holly Nott SYDNEY, Jan 8 AAP - Technology used to determine the age ... When hikers in the Italian Alps discovered a mummified body encased in melting ice, scientists used radiocarbon dating to determine it was more than 5, 300 years old ... .
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AMS dating of rock art in the Laura Region, Cape York Peninsula, Australia--protocols and results of recent research.
Antiquity; 9/1/2005; Cole, Noelene Watchman, Alan; 787 words
; Introduction More than a decade ago, a programme of rock art dating was initiated by the authors in the Laura (Quinkan ... Figure 1). [FIGURE 1 OMITTED] The science of 'direct dating' represents a relatively new development in the study ... complex processes of rock surface weathering. Some direct dating ...
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