39020

Accession Number

10970

Author

Venkatesan, Mahalakshmi I.; Linick, Timothy W.; Suess, Hans E.; Buccellati, Giorgio

Title Of Article Chaper

Asphalt in carbon-14-dated archaeological samples from Terqa, Syria

Title Of Journal Book

Nature

Volume

295

Issue

5849

Pages

517-519

Language Of Text

English

Literature Type

Serial

Literature Level

Analytic

Abstract

Contamination of charcoal samples by asphalt was demonstrated using gas chromatography. The estimated age was thus considerably older than the lime age of the charcoal. Comparison of the GLC spectra was made with aged diesel oil. -- AATA

pub_id

39020