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B.P.: Before Present, or Bad Policy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Junius B. Bird
Junius B. Bird*
Affiliation:
American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y.
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Abstract

The difficulties of using B.P. for radiocarbon ages figures is discussed in terms of the contrast between an age and a date, and the abandonment of the B.P. method of expressing dates is urged.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 1961 , pp. 557 - 558
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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