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Preparation Techniques for Radiocarbon Dating of Potsherds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Jacques Evin ,
Martine Gabasio  and
Jean-Claude Lefevre
Jacques Evin
Affiliation:
Centre de Datations et d'Analyses Isotopiques Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Martine Gabasio
Affiliation:
Centre de Datations et d'Analyses Isotopiques Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
Jean-Claude Lefevre
Affiliation:
Centre de Datations et d'Analyses Isotopiques Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France
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Abstract

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Origins of carbon in potsherds are studied through field experiments which involve firing pots containing selected components and laboratory analyses. As temper seems to be the main source of carbon, radiocarbon dates may be too old if calcium carbonate is used. We can avoid the carbon from the clay by low-temperature burning of samples.

Type
I. Sample Preparation and Measurement Techniques
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 276 - 283
Copyright
Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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