44050

Author

Taylor, R.E.; Payen, L.A.; Prior, C.A.; Slota, P.J., Jr.; Gillespie, R.; Gowlett, J.A.J.; Hedges, R.E.M.; Jull, A.J.T.; Zabel, T.H.; Donahue, D.J.; Berger, R.

Author Affiliation

University of California. Riverside. Radiocarbon Laboratory

Title Of Article Chaper

Major revisions in the Pleistocene age assignments for North American human skeletons by C-14 accelerator mass spectrometry: none older than 11,000 C-14 years BP

Title Of Journal Book

American antiquity: a quarterly review of American archaeology

Volume

50

Issue

1

Pages

136-140

Collation

1 table

Reference Bibliography

refs.

ISSN

0002-7316

Language Of Text

English

Language Of Summary

English

Literature Type

Serial

Literature Level

Analytic

Abstract

Radiocarbon analyses by accelerator mass spectrometric (AMS) techniques on organic fractions of human bone from various North American localities previously assigned ages ranging from about 70, 000 to 15,000 years BP now suggest that none of these skeletons is older than 11,000 carbon-14 years BP.

Keywords

Pleistocene;human skeleton;accelerator mass spectrometry; radiocarbon dating;North America;11,000 years BP;human;skeleton;dating

pub_id

44050