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- Title
Seeking the Holy Grail: robust chronologies from archaeology and radiocarbon dating combined.
- Authors
Bánffy, Eszter; Bayliss, Alex; Denaire, Anthony; Gaydarska, Bisserka; Hofmann, Daniela; Lefranc, Philippe; Jakucs, János; Marič, Miroslav; Oross, Krisztián; Tasič, Nenad; Whittle, Alasdair
- Abstract
The strengths of formal Bayesian chronological modelling are restated, combining as it does knowledge of the archaeology with the radiocarbon dating of carefully chosen samples of known taphonomy in association with diagnostic material culture. The risks of dating bone samples are reviewed, along with a brief history of the development of approaches to the radiocarbon dating of bone. In reply to Strien (2017), selected topics concerned with the emergence and aftermath of the LBK are discussed, as well as the early Vinča, Ražište and Hinkelstein sequences. The need for rigour in an approach which combines archaeology and radiocarbon dating is underlined.
- Subjects
RADIOCARBON dating; FOSSIL bone analysis; ARCHAEOLOGY; TAPHONOMY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL dating
- Publication
Documenta Praehistorica, 2018, Vol 45, p120
- ISSN
1408-967X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4312\dp.45.10