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- Title
LUMINESCENCE DATING SANDHILLS CERAMICS: A REVIEW.
- Authors
Herbert, Joseph M.; Feathers, James
- Abstract
In a recent article several archaeologists presented the results of an experiment designed to test the accuracy of luminescence dating of prehistoric pottery from the Sandhills of North Carolina. When results from two different dating facilities returned dates for the same pottery samples that were significantly different, conclusions were reached that the dates were unreliable, the dating method inaccurate, and the data useless for interpreting the age of the pottery. In the present article, we demonstrate that much of the disagreement in lab results is explained by the fact that the two facilities used different procedures, we show that most of the dates are reasonable estimates of the age of the pottery, and we illustrate how the results reveal the cultural components and occupation periods at the sites where the pottery was found.
- Subjects
THERMOLUMINESCENCE dating; ARCHAEOLOGICAL dating; PREHISTORIC pottery
- Publication
North Carolina Archaeology, 2015, Vol 64, p68
- ISSN
1546-797X
- Publication type
Article