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Ams 14C Age Determinations of Tissue, Bone and Grass Samples from the Ötztal Ice Man

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Georges Bonani ,
Susan D. Ivy ,
Irena Hajdas ,
Thomas R. Niklaus  and
Martin Suter
Georges Bonani
Affiliation:
Institut für Teilchenphysik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Susan D. Ivy
Affiliation:
Institut für Teilchenphysik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland Ingenieurgeologie, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
Irena Hajdas
Affiliation:
Institut für Teilchenphysik, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland EAWAG, Überlandstrasse 133, CH-8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland
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14C ages of samples from the Ötztal Ice Man, found on the Hauslabjoch in the Tyrolean Alps in September 1991, were determined using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Uncalibrated 14C ages of 4555 ± 34 bp, 4560 ± 65 bp and 4535 ± 60 bp were measured on tissue (mean of four samples), bone and grass, respectively, from the Ice Man. The mean of all of our measurements is 4550 ± 27 bp.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , 1994 , pp. 247 - 250
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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