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High-Precision Radiocarbon Measurements of Contemporaneous Tree-Ring Dated Wood from the British Isles and New Zealand: Ad 1850–950

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

A G Hogg ,
F G McCormac ,
T F G Higham ,
P J Reimer ,
M G L Baillie  and
J G Palmer
A G Hogg*
Affiliation:
Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton, New Zealand.
F G McCormac
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland.
T F G Higham
Affiliation:
Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, Oxford University, 6 Keble Rd, Oxford, OX1 3QJ, England.
P J Reimer
Affiliation:
Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry L-397, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PO Box 808, Livermore, California 94550, USA.
M G L Baillie
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland.
J G Palmer
Affiliation:
School of Archaeology and Palaeoecology, The Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland.
*
Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]
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The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand and The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland radiocarbon dating laboratories have undertaken a series of high-precision measurements on decadal samples of dendrochronologically dated oak (Quercus petraea) from Great Britain and cedar (Libocedrus bidwillii) and silver pine (Lagarostrobos colensoi) from New Zealand. The results show an average hemispheric offset over the 900 yr of measurement of 40 ± 13 yr. This value is not constant but varies with a periodicity of about 130 yr. The Northern Hemisphere measurements confirm the validity of the Pearson et al. (1986) calibration dataset.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , 2002 , pp. 633 - 640
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Copyright © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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