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Radiocarbon Dating from 40 to 60 ka BP at Border Cave, South Africa

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2003

Authors

Bird, Michael
Fifield, L Keith
dos Santos, G
Beaumont, Peter
Zhou, Youping
di Tada, M.
Hausladen, P.

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Pergamon-Elsevier Ltd

Abstract

We present 21 radiocarbon dates on 19 charcoal samples from the sedimentary sequence preserved in Border Cave, South Africa. The background radiocarbon activity for charcoal from the cave was determined to be 0.050±0.018 percent modern carbon, from the a

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Keywords: Amino acids; Charcoal; Error analysis; Paramagnetic resonance; Radiocarbon dating; Sediments; accuracy assessment; cave; charcoal; chronostratigraphy; Quaternary; radiocarbon dating; South Africa

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/85868

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ANU Research Publications

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Quaternary Science Reviews

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Journal article

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10.1016/S0277-3791(03)00005-2

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