Sentences with phrase «previous radiocarbon dating»
Higham and his colleagues went on to conduct a statistical analysis of previous radiocarbon dating results from Mezmaiskaya Cave and the six other sites in Europe and Asia — ranging from Russia in the northeast to Spain in the southwest — that have provided direct dates from Neandertal fossils, as opposed to indirect dates from charcoal and other artifacts.
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Cat Jarman said: «The previous radiocarbon dates from this site were all affected by something called marine reservoir effects, which is what made them seem too old.
Professor Higham said: «Previous radiocarbon dates have often underestimated the age of samples from sites associated with Neanderthals because the organic matter was contaminated with modern particles.
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The following methods were used to date the last fire and sometimes the previous fire occurring at a site: dating of fire scars, dating of post-fire trees, dating of pre-fire trees, radiocarbon dating of charcoal and clonometry.
With a well - dated accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon chronology (Fig. 1), the Linsley Pond sediments have been used to investigate shifts in paleovegetation and paleoclimate during the last glacial - interglacial transition in previous publications.