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Calibrated 14C Dates in Central Europe - Same as Elsewhere?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

J C Freundlich  and
Burghart Schmidt
J C Freundlich
Affiliation:
14C -Laboratorium and Labor fuer Dendrochronologie, Univ Koeln, Weyertal 125, D-5000 Koeln 41, Germany (Fed Rep)
Burghart Schmidt
Affiliation:
14C -Laboratorium and Labor fuer Dendrochronologie, Univ Koeln, Weyertal 125, D-5000 Koeln 41, Germany (Fed Rep)
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Abstract

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14C dating results derived from an absolutely-dated 471-year tree-ring sequence from central European oak show a trend towards somewhat older dates than those for bristleconepine tree rings of the same age, but similar to those for Egyptian historical samples. Differences visible between these trend lines are not relevant considering the standard errors proposed by Clark (1975).

Type
I. Natural 14C Variations
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 25 , Issue 2: 11th International Radiocarbon Conference , 1983 , pp. 279 - 286
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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