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Title Of Article Chaper
Marine turtle bones from an archaeological site in Polynesia yield reliable age determinations
Title Of Journal Book
Radiocarbon
Volume
32
Issue
2
Pages
143-147
Collation
1 fig.
Reference Bibliography
refs.
ISSN
0033-8222
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating of three 50g samples of marine turtle bone from the basal cultural stratum of the Tongoleleka archaeological site, Lifuka Island, Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific, yields results that agree with conventional carbon-14 dates on marine shell. A method for calibrating these dates that takes into account the long distance migrations of marine turtles in the South Pacific is proposed. A sample size greater than 50g is recommended for routine AMS dating of marine turtle bone.
Keywords
marine;bone;archaeological sites;Polynesia;radiocarbon dating; sampling; turtle;accelerator mass spectrometry; Tongoleleka Site (Lifuka Island, Kingdom of Tonga, South Pacific); dating;Tonga;shell;migration
pub_id
7908