Radiocarbon Analyses of Modern Organics at Monte Verde, Chile

No Evidence for a Local Reservoir Effect

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2560146
AutoresR E Taylor (0000-0001-5299-8296, University of California, Riverside, autor de correspondencia), C Vance Haynes (0000-0001-5529-9060, University of Arizona), Donna L Kirner (University of California, Riverside), John Southon (0000-0001-6168-6235, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), John R Southon
Año1999
Volumen64
Número3
Páginas455-460
Fecha de publicación1999-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2694145
OpenAlexW2324798449
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas28

Radiocarbon measurements have been obtained on contemporary plant samples collected at the site of Monte Verde, Chile, to examine the possibility that a locall4C reservoir effect impinges on the accuracy of thel4C values obtained on previously recovered archaeological samples. Thel4C activity of the modern plants do not reveal any offset from expected contemporaryl4C values and thus provide no support for a major postulated reservoir effect at least for the recent past. Although there is, at present, no direct means of measuring potentiall4C reservoir offsets in the late Pleistocene for this region, we are not aware of any current data that would indicate that there have been major changes during geologically recent times

Archaeology · Geography · Holocene · Pleistocene · Radiocarbon dating · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology