A Revised Chronology of the Lowest Occupation Layer of Pedra Furada Rock Shelter, Piau�, Brazil; the Pleistocene Peopling of the Americas
Date
2003
Authors
dos Santos, G
Bird, Michael
Parenti, F
Fifield, L Keith
Guidon, N.
Hausladen, P.
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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
The present work revisits the chronology of the archaeologically controversial Pedra Furada Rock Shelter of Southeast Piauí, Brazil, using an improved radiocarbon laboratory pre-treatment and measurements on charcoal samples. The procedure, known as ABOX
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Keywords: Carbon dioxide; Charcoal; Combustion; Mass spectrometry; Oxidation; Radiocarbon dating; Geochronology; accelerator mass spectrometry; archaeological evidence; charcoal; radiocarbon dating; Brazil; Piaui; South America
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Quaternary Science Reviews
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Journal article