The Marine Radiocarbon Reservoir Effect on Adak Island (Central Aleutian Islands), Alaska

• Main Authors: Khasanov, Bulat F, Nakamura, Toshio, Okuno, Mitsuru, Gorlova, Ekaterina N, Krylovich, Olga A, West, Dixie L, Hatfield, Virginia, Savinetsky, Arkady B
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Radiocarbon 2015
• Subjects: Delta R; Bering Sea; archaeology; Adak; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/18329

Radiocarbon dates (n = 18) from three archaeological sites on Adak Island, Alaska, were analyzed to understand the marine reservoir offset. Samples of marine and terrestrial origins recovered from the same archaeological context were compiled in nine pairs. The mean ΔR value calculated for them tota...