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Effects of 14C Sample Selection in Archaeology: An Example from Hawai'i

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Tom Dye*
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International Archaeological Research Institute, Inc., 2081 Young St., Honolulu, Hawai'i 96826, USA. Email: [email protected]
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A comparison of radiocarbon histograms of samples controlled and uncontrolled for sample provenance and composition factors indicates that differences are sufficiently large to influence the discrimination of alternative hypotheses on the age of the important, early Bellows Dune site in Hawai'i.

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