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Between a rock and a soft place: Using optical ages to date ancient clam gardens on the Pacific Northwest

Rock-walled archaeological features are notoriously hard to date, largely because of the absence of suitable organic material for radiocarbon dating. This study demonstrates the efficacy of dating clam garden wall construction using optical dating, and uses optical ages to determine how sedimentatio...

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Autores principales: Neudorf, Christina M., Smith, Nicole, Lepofsky, Dana, Toniello, Ginevra, Lian, Olav B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5300257/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28182645
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171775