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Duck Decoys from Lovelock Cave, Nevada, Dated by 14C Accelerator Mass Spectrometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald R. Tuohy  and
L. Kyle Napton
Donald R. Tuohy
Affiliation:
The Nevada State Museum, Capitol Complex, Carson City, NV89710;
L. Kyle Napton
Affiliation:
Institute for Archaeological Research, California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA 95380
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Abstract

Two of the 11 duck decoys found in Lovelock Cave, Nevada, over 60 years ago have recently been dated by the AMS technique. The resulting determinations are 2080 ± 330 B.P. and 2250 ± 230 B.P.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 813 - 816
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1986

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