Radiocarbon Dating in Eastern Arctic Archaeology: A Flexible Approach
Radiocarbon dates from marine mammal tissue present Arctic archaeologists with some difficult interpretive problems. These problems are so serious that McGhee and Tuck have even advocated omitting all sea mammal dates from the Eastern Arctic radiocarbon chronology. A flexible approach to interpretin...
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crcambridgeupr:10.2307/280207 2023-06-11T04:08:17+02:00 Radiocarbon Dating in Eastern Arctic Archaeology: A Flexible Approach Arundale, Wendy Hanford 1981 http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/280207 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600079142 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms American Antiquity volume 46, issue 2, page 244-271 ISSN 0002-7316 2325-5064 Museology Archeology Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History journal-article 1981 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.2307/280207 2023-05-01T18:21:59Z Radiocarbon dates from marine mammal tissue present Arctic archaeologists with some difficult interpretive problems. These problems are so serious that McGhee and Tuck have even advocated omitting all sea mammal dates from the Eastern Arctic radiocarbon chronology. A flexible approach to interpreting sea mammal dates will allow researchers to use existing dates more effectively and to make future dates more reliable. Solving the problems with sea mammal dates requires: (1) abandoning the assumption that radiocarbon assays are quasi-absolute chronological indicators; (2) recognizing and understanding the sources of variability that affect these dates; (3) correcting for these sources of variability; and (4) developing a more flexible strategy for interpreting the resulting date sequence. A large table of radiocarbon dates from the Eastern Arctic provides the basis for demonstrating how these four steps can be accomplished. Applying this flexible approach also suggests directions and guidelines for future research. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Arctic Tuck ENVELOPE(-84.833,-84.833,-78.483,-78.483) American Antiquity 46 2 244 271 |
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Radiocarbon dates from marine mammal tissue present Arctic archaeologists with some difficult interpretive problems. These problems are so serious that McGhee and Tuck have even advocated omitting all sea mammal dates from the Eastern Arctic radiocarbon chronology. A flexible approach to interpreting sea mammal dates will allow researchers to use existing dates more effectively and to make future dates more reliable. Solving the problems with sea mammal dates requires: (1) abandoning the assumption that radiocarbon assays are quasi-absolute chronological indicators; (2) recognizing and understanding the sources of variability that affect these dates; (3) correcting for these sources of variability; and (4) developing a more flexible strategy for interpreting the resulting date sequence. A large table of radiocarbon dates from the Eastern Arctic provides the basis for demonstrating how these four steps can be accomplished. Applying this flexible approach also suggests directions and guidelines for future research. |
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Radiocarbon Dating in Eastern Arctic Archaeology: A Flexible Approach |
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Radiocarbon Dating in Eastern Arctic Archaeology: A Flexible Approach |
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Radiocarbon Dating in Eastern Arctic Archaeology: A Flexible Approach |
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radiocarbon dating in eastern arctic archaeology: a flexible approach |
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