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Column Chromatography and the Possibility of Carbon-Lens Migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jack Brown
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
Richard A. Gould
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California

Abstract

A process known in biochemistry as column chromatography suggests how, under certain conditions, carbon lenses can migrate downward to new levels in the soil of archaeological sites. A radiocarbon date from a carbon lens may not correspond to the date of objects found associated with it.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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