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Dating the Neolithic human remains at Knowth
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The 60 AMS 14C determinations on cremated and non-burnt human bone presented here have provided a robust chronological framework for the interpretation of the main use phase at Knowth. This large series was seen as necessary to overcome the problem presented by the late fourth-millennium BC calibration plateau. To a large extent this strategy has been successful, but as is usually the case with modelling, there is not necessarily a single, clear-cut answer to questions of chronology, and much...
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- 10.7486/DRI.s178j1735
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- Royal Irish Academy
- Host title:
- Excavations at Knowth 6: The Passage Tomb Archaeology of the Great Mound at Knowth
- Place of publication:
- Dublin
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-01
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- 1908996765
- ISBN-13:
- 9781908996763
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- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © Royal Irish Academy 2017. Available online in the Digital Repository of Ireland under a cc-by-nc-nd license.
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